Re: Mac d/l for Apple2 GS forked files need help

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer) writes...

>Tim, you use a Macintosh right?  Perhaps you know that Macintosh
>uses extended files...files that are broken into two parts, a data fork
>and a resource fork.  Non-GS Apple II (8-bit models) have NO OS
>capable of using extended (otherwise known as "forked") files but
>the Apple IIGS OS, GS/OS, shares with Mac OS the use of forked
>files.  Just as 8-bit A2 OS can't use forked files from Mac OS, 8-bit
>A2 OS can't use forked files from GS/OS...

    I thought I might point out while you cannot directly 
manipulate forked files (created by GS/OS or MacOS) from 
within ProDOS 8, you can use an 8-bit Apple II application 
to split the resource fork and data fork into two separate
files. Off hand I don't recall the name, but it may have
been called "Splitter" or something close to that name.

    This is useful if your an Apple IIe/IIc user and given
an HFS or ProDOS disk with forked files you need to access.
I'm sure the program can be found on the Ground or Caltech
FTP sites, but if not, I can always upload it.

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca