Re: Looking for Help on the IIgs!

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

<pubpc1@library.ucla.edu> wrote:

> Incidentally, there's an easy way to get rid of a Macintosh or
> IIgs resource fork in ProDOS 8 that works with 8-bit Apple II
> computers too.  If you copy a file with Copy II Plus 9.0 or above,
> it will copy the data fork and ignore the resource fork such that
> the destination file is not forked.

Have you actually tried this and verified that you end up with a correct
data fork?

Copy II+ 9.0 (or earlier) don't realise that the file has an unusual
storage type.  This means that it probably tries to copy the extended
key block as data, or as some kind of index.  It would then get
thouroughly lost and may copy random blocks from the disk.

I haven't tried it myself, but I'd be surprised if Central Point went to
the trouble of _adding_ support for extracting the data fork, without
also supporting copying the resource fork.

-- 
David Empson
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