Re: netboot different behavior on ROM 01 and 03 GS

[Ivan X <ivanxqz@yahoo.com>]

> Because PC Exchange on the Mac does not know anything about resource
> forks on ProDOS disks.  If you copy a file with a resource fork on the
> Mac to a ProDOS disk, PC Exchange does not copy that resource fork
> over to the ProDOS disk.

Beg to differ. While that's true of the old Apple File Exchange application
from System 7.0.1 and before, both the ProDOS File System and PC Exchange
extensions are well aware of ProDOS resource forks, and utilize them. In
fact, if you copy a Mac file to a ProDOS volume, it will always create a
forked file by default, which is why I wrote UnForkIt for ProDOS 8 a long
time ago. The only way to prevent this from happening is to ensure that the
Mac file has creator "pdos" and type "TEXT" or type "pxyy" where x is the
byte for the ProDOS file type and yy is the byte pair for the ProDOS aux
type (usually $0000, which in ASCII terms is NULL NULL or ctrl-@ ctrl-@).

And, the ROM 01 machine does boot, so it seems that the files made it over
ok. It's just the ROM 03 that's barfing (though Peter Wong and Geoff Body
sent possible solutions -- thanks, guys).