Re: Looking for Help on the IIgs!

[NOSPAM***bjbear@ibm.net (B.J. Major & Dennis J. Gorin)]

In article <5gsiht$hdm@uni.library.ucla.edu>, pubpc1@library.ucla.edu wrote:

> nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:
> In response to my reply:
> >>The Mac-to-Apple2 problems listed in the FAQ only refer to 8-bit
> >>Apple IIs, since the IIgs handles resource forks just fine.
> >
> >   Bzzzt. GS/OS (System 5 and up) can handle resource forks
> >fine. ProDOS 8 on a GS is just as incompetent when dealing with forked
> >files as ProDOS 8 on a //e.
> 
> The IIgs can, as a computer, handles resource forks just fine
> because it CAN use GS/OS.  Therefore, there is really no Mac-to-Apple2
> problem with a IIgs.
> 
> The poster's computer in question obviously has GS/OS, since he
> can run AWGS 1.1, which requires it (and ships with System 5.0.2).
> 
> 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.
> 
> -Scott G.

I have a gs.  Using the Shrinkit program that is on the ProTerm 3.5" app
disk, it will NOT open/unshrink files that have a resource fork.  If you
own Copy // plus version 8.2 (and not 9.0 and above), how else can you get
rid of these forks?

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