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- From: jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu (Jim Wong)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Appleworks Translator
- Message-ID: <Bu9xLt.2Cu@rice.edu>
- Date: 8 Sep 1992 19:17:51 GMT
- References: <9209080056.aa10274@generic.UUCP> <1992Sep8.150020.3000@cybernet.cse.fau.edu>
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- In article <1992Sep8.150020.3000@cybernet.cse.fau.edu> ralpho@acc.fau.edu (Ralph P Carpenter) writes:
- >
- >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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- Mac applications do not generally create forked data files; I believe that
- the ProDOS File System manager creates forked files on ProDOS disks
- to store file type information.
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- --
- Jim Wong (jimwong@owlnet.rice.edu)
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