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- From: ralpho@cse.fau.edu (Ralph P Carpenter)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Appleworks Translator
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.150020.3000@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 15:00:20 GMT
- References: <9209080056.aa10274@generic.UUCP>
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- Reply-To: ralpho@acc.fau.edu (Ralph P Carpenter)
- Organization: Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
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- In article <9209080056.aa10274@generic.UUCP> taob@terranet.cts.com (Brian Tao) writes:
- > Check out the ProDOS File System Manager (FSM) on the Mac as well.
- >This init file lets the Mac read ProDOS disks directly (although it
- >won't do any file translation on its own). You can skip the AFE step
- >when reading your //c files, but files created by the Mac (even plain
- >ASCII files) won't be readable on the //c. For some reason the ProDOS
- >FSM always makes forked files which are unreadable under ProDOS 8.
-
- I found that if I Saved from an Mac application to an HFS volume, then
- Finder-copyed the document to a ProDOS volume, the resulting file was not
- forked, and was usable under ProDOS 8. Directly saving a file from a
- Mac application to a ProDOS volume /did/ result in a forked, unusable
- file.
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