Re: LC IIe card reading files as forked

[John L <jlogo3@bigpond.dot.com>]

On Thu, 27 May 2004 07:46:09 GMT, Sean McNamara
<sean@macassist.com.au> wrote:

>Hi there,
>
>I've set up my newly acquired LC IIe card, and it's working fine off 
>disks and ProDOS hard disk partitions with files copied off disks from 
>my "real" //e.
>
>Having a couple of glitches, and thought I'd see if anyone had any ideas.
>
>Setup: LC 575 with 36MB RAM, 1GB HD (tried with 40MB, too), OS 7.5.5

I have a similar setup although my clock battery is dead :(

>Glitch the first: ProDOS partitions aren't automounting
>I have checked the volume settings for the ProDOS partitions and they 
>are both set to Automout, but they don't automount. No huge drama - I 
>just have Drive Setup in my Startup Items and I can mount them from 
>there. Does anyone know of how to get these to really automount, either 
>truly automatically, or via a script or utility?

Use SCSI probe

>Glitch the second: Files from another Mac show as "forked"
>
>When I try to open the ShrinkIt archives, or even just copy them using 
>ShrinkIt, it complains about the files being forked. I have not tried to 
>open the files before they get to the LC 575. I've used various Resource 
>fork zapping utils to make sure they don't have a resource fork. I've 
>even logged into the LC 575 from my //e with a WorkStation Card, and 
>been able to extract the files from the ShrinkIt archive residing on the 
>Mac's HFS partition from the //e's copy of ShrinkIt, so the file is 
>fine. There's just something about how the LC card is accessing the 
>files which is being screwy.

Use the Mac application Protype (v1.1) to remove the resource forks
from the shrinkit archives.



John