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- From: jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong)
- Subject: Re: ProDOS on a Mac
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- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 08:40:27 GMT
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- Jim Wong (jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu)
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