Re: ProDOS on a Mac

[jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong)]

In article <1993Jan21.220301.29159@cs.uow.edu.au> david@cs.uow.edu.au (David E A Wilson) writes:
>Having obtained the ProDOS driver for the Macintosh, is it possible to force
>it to create unforked files? I transfer files to the Mac using an FTP program
>and then either use AFE to put them on a ProDOS disk or A2FX on my //e to
>copy from a HFS disk to my ProDOS hard disk.

I don't think so -- the ProDOS FS init keeps Macintosh file type and 
creator information in the resource fork of files on ProDOS disks.  In fact,
it will add resource forks to Mac files without them when the files are put
on a ProDOS volume.


-- 
Jim Wong (jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu)