Re: Copy II Plus & GS/OS

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

In article <bongini.117.2F3020CB@law3.law.ucla.edu>,
STEPHEN BONGINI <bongini@law3.law.ucla.edu> wrote:
> 
> Is there a version of Copy II Plus that will copy GS/OS files.  I have 
> version 9.0 & it gives an error when I try to copy, etc. these files.

I expect you mean "...copy files with resource forks".  A fair
proportion of GS/OS files have resource forks, but there are quite a
few which don't, and these can be copied perfectly well.

No, there is no version of Copy II+ which can copy files with resource
forks, and there will never be one since Central Point Software
stopped development on the program.

Versions prior to 9.0 will copy them blindly, producing a corrupted
file in the process.  9.0 and 9.1 give you an error message when you
try to copy a file with a resource fork.


I'm not aware of any ProDOS-8 file copy program which can copy files
with resource forks.  The ProDOS-8 operating system doesn't support
them, so the program would have to go directly to the disk (using
block reads and writes).

I think there is at least one ProDOS-8 program that can extract the
data and resource forks of a file (it has to go behind the back of the
operating system).
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David Empson
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