Re: GS/OS applications on HFS disks

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Pim Blokland <pDOTblokland@spcgroup.nl> wrote:

>I thought that when you save a file to a HFS disk, the GS does not mind
>the "foreign" file system, and it just saves the file in such a way that
>it is completely retrievable, including all of its attributes.

It is.

>However, the other day I found that when copying a GS/OS application to
>a HFS disk (with the Finder), the aux type of the app gets destroyed.
>The file type remains the same ($B3), but the aux type reverts to zero.
>Is this "normal"? Or is it a bug in the HFS FST? If so, is it a known
>bug and is there a patch available? Of am I doing something wrong?

Was this GS file handled with a Macintosh program (copied, Shrink II,
etc.)?  I only seen this happen ONCE.  I set the file type and aux type
on a Macintosh Truetype font for use with the GS.  When I moved the
file from one volume to another HFS volume, I got the zero aux type you
mentioned.  I can only suppose that the file somehow has a Macintosh
file type which causes the GS types to get "dropped" while copying
from one volume to another (I know that that Mac and GS file types are
stored in different ways).  This only happens when I set the file/aux
type of a font using a file typer other than Pointless.  If I use Pointless
itself to set the type, the files can be copied (Pointless must do
something like remove Macintosh file types)...