Re: Looking for Help on the IIgs!

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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.