Re: Filetype $50 question

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

dempson@swell.actrix.gen.nz (David Empson) writes:
>then be able to read it with APW.  Note that a Teach file has a data
>fork which contains the text, and a resource fork which contains style
>information.  You can't read files with resource forks from a ProDOS-8
>program.

Not quite true.

1)	If you are running Appleshare you can set bit 7 of the param count
	field of your OPEN call and open the resource fork
	(or not set it and open the data fork) of a file on a server.

2)	Using READ_BLOCK and the info from the technotes you can read
	a forked file on a local disk.

Both of these are do-able under P8.

Certainly your average program will not be able to do this.
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