Re: LC IIe card reading files as forked

[Greg Buchner <apple22@mn.rr.com>]

In article <sean-4A43ED.17460827052004@news-server>,
 Sean McNamara <sean@macassist.com.au> wrote:

> Glitch the first: ProDOS partitions aren't automounting
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> Does anyone know of how to get these to really automount, either 
> truly automatically, or via a script or utility?

Search for SCSI Probe.  It's a control panel for the older Mac OSes that 
might do that.  It has an option in it to mount all volumes on the SCSI 
chain(s).

> Glitch the second: Files from another Mac show as "forked"
> I haven't gotten the Internet set up on the LC575 yet (will probably 
> have to setup a PPP server on our Mac OS X server, and login to it over 
> a serial adaptor, or maybe I'll use my SCSI to Ethernet adaptors if I'm 
> feeling brave!), so I'm relying on my Mac OS X PowerBook G4 to download 
> files, which I then burn to an HFS Standard CD using Toast, which I then 
> load on the LC, then either copy to floppies or the ProDOS partitions. 
> So far, this has been almost exclusively ShrinkIt files.

The 'fork' is being added when you copy from HFS to ProDOS.  HFS adds a 
resource fork with the Mac OS filetype information unless the creator is 
'PDOS' (capitalization uncertain) and the filetype is the ProDOS 
filetype.  There are a few different ways that the files are done that 
way, and I don't remember exactly how for certain, but I seem to 
remember the filetype for a ShrinkIt archive on the Mac should be P (or 
is it p?) followed by the hex values representing $E0/8002, and I'm not 
certain about the order.  There are a couple of programs on the net that 
do fix this based on the filename extension, but it's been way too long 
since I used them and don't remember them.

Greg B.

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