Re: Help! Filetype $00 problems . . .

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:

:> I get stuck at this point: PRODOS gives me a FILE
:> TYPE MISMATCH.
:> 
:> When I do a CAT, TCHANGE.BIN shows up as "$00",
:> just like GSHK and the terminal program.

:      If your transfer procedure moves the files to the GS as type $00, try
: this ...

: BLOAD TCHANGE.BIN, T$00, A2048

: DELETE TCHANGE.BIN

: BSAVE TCHANGE.BIN, A2048, L15711


: TCHANGE.BIN should be BRUN-able. BRUN TCHANGE.BIN to start the filetype
: changer program.

: Once TCHANGE.BIN is running, you can exit the program and just SAVE
: TYPE.CHANGER to have a BASIC type changer program which you can RUN to start.

That won't work since the files become extended during copying. BASIC gives
a FILE TYPE MISMATCH error in response to the UNSUPPORTED STORAGE_TYPE error
coming from the kernel. The way to get the files to work is stripping the
resource fork, which ProTYPE does.

Trivia: for some reason ProDOS 8 was written so that it won't even let you 
rename an extended file, even though that operation is independent of the file
structure. Naturally deleting and copying are out of the question as well.
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