Re: RFC: downloading info for c.s.a2 FAQ

[david@wraith.cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson)]

dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
>Nathan Mates <nathan@visi.com> wrote:
>>    And finally, just to mention it again because I've had to try and
>> clean up after it so dang often, ADDING RESOURCE FORKS WITHOUT REASON.

My pet peve as well.

>Similar rubbish happens on MS-DOS disks.  The Mac creates hidden files
>somewhere which hold the Mac file type and creator, and a hidden
>RESOURCE.FRK directory to hold the resource forks.  The PC is not able

At least the PC is still able to read the files unlike my //e.

>Before copying a file to a ProDOS volume using PC Exchange, make sure
>the creator is 'pdos' and the file type is set correctly (even just to
>'TEXT' - you can always set up the correct file type once it is on an
>Apple II).

This rather defeats the point of PC Exchange. It is easier to ftp a file
to the Mac HD and use AFE to write it to the 800k floppy rather than trying
to mess about with file types [which still involves at least two steps rather
than the one of ftping the file to floppy which would be the optimum].
-- 
David Wilson	Dept CompSci Uni Wollongong Australia	david@cs.uow.edu.au