Resource Forks on a IIgs

[quor@qedbbs.com (Matthew Ghio)]

RE Post from: rgshacke@wsuhub.uc.twsu.edu (RANDY)
> It doesn't take too much code to read a fork of an extended file in ProDOS 8.
> I did it.
>
> > Hey, maybe a IIgs-only patch to P8?  :-)
>
> How will that help? The language card isn't any bigger in a IIgs

No, the language card isn't any bigger in a IIgs, but the amount of 
availiable RAM is!  You could simply allocate a memory space outside of 
bank 0/1 to handle the resource forks.  I'd write a program to do it 
myself, except I don't know what format resource forks on disk is, nor do 
I have any idea where I could find such info.  If I could get that info, 
I'd be glad to write a Prodos 8 utility or whatever to handle resources.

P.S. I agree with Phillip Vandry and John MacLean; resource forks suck.
They are, among other things, a huge compatibility problem.

Quor