Re: GS/OS and ProDOS-8 Question...

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"Terence J. Boldt" <apple2@cgocable.net> wrote:

>Does anyone know for sure whether you can use an 8 bit copy program like
>Copy II Plus to copy GS/OS from a bunch of floppies to a hard drive?  Will
>it lose the resources or are the files not stored with separate forks like a
>Mac?  The reason I ask is that I need to create a GS/OS boot disk on a 1 meg
>hard drive image inside an 8-bit emulator.  If I can't do this, I'll have to
>use a real hard drive to make the image, write my own block copy in assembly
>and reconstruct the hard disk image from 8x  140 KB .DSK images.  Either
>way, I'm planning on testing my ROM-Drive card booting GS/OS...  Thanks in
>advance for the help.

Hi, you can use Copy II Plus to BLOCK COPY (ie. Volume Copy)
from a 1MB RAM disk to your ROM disk.  You cannot, however,
FILE copy.  That's because Copy II Plus cannot deal with extended
files which both GS/OS and MacOS uses.  In fact, I'm not even
sure Copy II Plus will be able to copy the data fork.  It might just
generate an error.  I do know that some tasks like rename will
cause the resource fork to be "forgotten" and that could be a big
problem because losing a resource fork renders many IIGS program
and data files useless.