Re: Kegs and HFS

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

> dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) wrote:
> 
> >You might be thinking of the other way around: copying a Mac file to a
> >ProDOS volume stores the Mac type/creator in the extended key block, not
> >the directory entry.
> 
> Aha, now it makes sense.  I've always wondered, what would
> happen to a Mac file that is copied by the IIGS Finder to a
> ProDOS disk, then back to an HFS disk.

Works fine.  GS/OS preserves the appropriate HFS data in the extended
key block when copying a file to ProDOS, and it goes back to its correct
location when copied to HFS again.

> Can the IIGS HFS FST do the same type of "ProDOS storage" of Mac file
> info that the Mac itself does?

The HFS FST is not involved when copying a file to a ProDOS volume, only
in the reading of the file from the HFS volume, or writing back to it.

The ProDOS FST, on the other hand, does preserve the Mac-specific data
which was read by the HFS FST.

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David Empson
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