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Re: How to get a IIGS going without disks...
- Subject: Re: How to get a IIGS going without disks...
- From: Rob Greene <nospam-greener@charter.net>
- Date: Tue, 03 May 2005 13:12:02 GMT
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
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> You have discovered the nasty secret of the MacOS: it forks everything
> it gets its hands on. ;-)
>
> There are utilities for the Mac that can remove the (meaningless)
> resource fork so ProDOS can use the files, and there is a little
> Applesoft program called UNFORKIT that can remove the resource
> forks on an Apple II.
>
> Once you get rid of the forks, 8-bit ShrinkIt can handle any file
> type, just "Show all" (OA-S??) in the file dialog and all file
> types will be shown and can be selected.
Essentially UNFORKIT is worthless since I need to have UNFORKIT to make
UNFORKIT useful, right?
What's a utility on the Mac that I can fix up files?
What do others use? I can't hang onto the Macs forever...
Thanks!
-Rob