Re: Internet->Mac->Apple IIgs

[dnapoli@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dick Napoli)]

Randy Shackelford (shack@onyx.southwind.net) wrote:
Massive clippage
: That it is. PC exchange and the ProDOS extension write all files onto ProDOS
: disks as forked type $00. BASIC has no "me don't know forked file thing"
: error so it gives you FILE TYPE MISMATCH. The fix? I wrote some homemade
: ProDOS 8 assembly that can write the data fork of an extended file into a
: regular file. I attempted to write code to delete extended files but didn't
: quite perfect it, the free blocks count was always off by one when it finished.
: Haven't looked at it in a while, the job thing and the life thing took away
: a bunch of my hacking time.
: --
: Randy Shackelford                                 I was internet
: shack@southwind.net                               when internet wasn't cool

	Not long ago some kind soul mentioned here that if you change the
Filetype to BINA and the Creator to pdos before transferring from a Mac
formatted drive to a Prodos disk, the file will be transferred without the
creation of a forked file.  This works for me when using the Prodos File
Systeme extension on my Performa 575.  I don't know if it works with PC
Exchange.  
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Dick Napoli (dnapoli@freenet.columbus.oh.us)