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- id <m0mTyCO-0000ykC@crash.cts.com>; Sun, 13 Sep 92 10: 57 PDT
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- From: bbean@pro-nsdapple.cts.com (Bruce Bean)
- Subject: Re: Apple Stupidity (was Re: Where does ProDOS come from?)
- Organization: ProLine [pro-nsdapple] - North San Diego Apple Users Group
- Date: Sun, 13 Sep 92 09:13:28 PDT
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- In-Reply-To: sknkwrks@unlv.edu (Scott Alfter)
- References: <1992Sep13.022025.12705@unlv.edu>
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- >(Suggestion to Andy Nicholas for the next version of ShrinkIt: how
- >about prohibiting the creation of disk archives of ProDOS disks?
- >It'll prevent the terminal stupidity of some people who like to use
- >disk archives for everything instead of file archives (which is what
- >you should always use for ProDOS volumes).)
- >
- > _/_ Scott Alfter Internet:
- sknkwrks@cs.unlv.edu
- > / v \ Call the Skunk Works BBS today!
- >(IIe ( (702) 894-9619 300-14400 V.32bis Apple II/IBM/Star Trek/Aerospace
- > \_^_/ Ask me about SoftDAC--digital audio for your IIe/IIc! AII Forever!
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- This would be well and good except for the case when you wish to Shrink a
- GS/OS forked file. A disk archive is the only way to do that from Prodos
- 8.
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