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- From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton)
- Subject: 3.0 Mac Floppy Copy Less Than Useful
- Message-ID: <1992Nov22.035136.15646@trilithon.mpk.ca.us>
- Keywords: 3.0, Macintosh, Resources, Forks
- Sender: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us
- Organization: Trilithon Software
- Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:51:36 GMT
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- In 3.0, I notice that the ``system'' seems to look only at the Data
- Fork of Macintosh files. This is less than useful for Macintosh
- format Type 1 font files, which in almost all cases have their
- useful data in the resource fork of the file.
-
- Changing directory to the Macintosh floppy and doing ls -1 shows
- the Type 1 font to be of length zero, when in fact there's plenty
- of font data hiding in there somewhere.
-
- So, one of the major potential uses for 3.0 reading Macintosh floppy
- disks is nullified by this behavior. I've looked in the 3.0 release
- notes and didn't see anything mentioned about 3.0 and Macintsoh
- floppy disks, except for the watning about writing lots of small
- files.
-
- Anybody have any great ideas how to deal with these issues in 3.0?
- I hope FloppyWorks is OK on 3.0, because I can't seem to do without
- using FloppyWorks.
-
- ........ Henry
-