Re: Adding AOL Apple II Forum keyword to FAQ

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Supertimer writes ...
> 
> Rubywand, since I've provided new AOL based Apple II users
> with the keyword for the AOL Apple II Forum and they've all
> wrote back to me saying how helpful it was (especially the
> Mac users, since ShrinkIt! in Mac extractable DiskCopy
> format is in the AOL Apple II Forum library), I think that this
> info should be added to the FAQ.
> 
> The keyword is:
> 
> aol://4344:1264.a2main.10029531.514525857
 ....

     Okay; the info has been added and will appear in the Major Sites listing when
the next revision is released.

     By the way, if you will just stop by the II Computing forum on Delphi (
http://www.delphi.com/csa2/ ) you will become a forum member and I'll give you mod
status. Then you can host Apple II discussions on Delphi (in which both AOL and
non-AOL members can participate) whenever you like.


 ....

> PS. This is especially true for Mac users because once
> PC Exchange transfers downloaded files to a ProDOS
> disk, it generates a resource fork thereby preventing the
> use of BASIC.SYSTEM to change the file type!  This
> means that the shrinkit.exe self-extractor will not work.
> For Mac users, a DiskCopy option is essential.  I've tried
> the BASIC.SYSTEM method with a forked file.  It does
> not work.  To give you an example if you can't find a Mac
> for the test, go into the GS Finder and add a comment to
> a ProDOS 8 file.  Any file.  Now try to go into BASIC.SYSTEM
> to change that file's type.  You'll get an error because the
> GS has added a resource fork, just as Mac PC Exchange
> adds one.

     Once a resource fork is added, you have a file which looks really screwed up to
ProDOS-8. Doesn't ProTYPE (from ftp://ground.ecn.uiowa.edu/apple2/Mac/ ) fix this
problem on Macs?



Rubywand