29 Jan
2023
29 Jan
'23
10:31 a.m.
I’m looking at some 3.5” floppies from about 1995, so probably about the time I got my
first Mac.
Am I correct that System 7 used A:\RESOURCE.FRK\DESKTOP as the Resource Fork data? MacOS
12.5 doesn’t appear to use it. :-)
A bunch of the floppies I’m looking at have this, including ones that appear to be PC
Backups.
Zane
29 Jan
29 Jan
11:23 a.m.
I’m looking at some 3.5” floppies from about 1995, so
probably about the time I got my first Mac.
Am I correct that System 7 used A:\RESOURCE.FRK\DESKTOP as the Resource Fork data? MacOS
12.5 doesn’t appear to use it. :-)
A bunch of the floppies I’m looking at have this, including ones that appear to be PC
Backups.
That sounds like a floppy disk written by PC Exchange. RESOURCE.FRK would
contain any resource fork for any file in that folder, so at the root
\RESOURCE.FRK\DESKTOP would probably have been the equivalent of the Desktop
folder.
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1:14 p.m.
On Jan 29, 2023, at 11:23 AM, Cameron Kaiser via
cctalk <cctalk(a)classiccmp.org> wrote:
Thanks Cameron, that jogs a few old brain cells, and sounds right. Initially I thought
this had something to do with FASTBACK on MS-DOS, which made zero sense, as I was finding
them on FASTBACK backup floppies. Then I realized some of the floppies were just simple
data floppies.
I’m finding Google has limited knowledge of some of this stuff.
Zane
I’m looking at some 3.5” floppies from about
1995, so probably about the time I got my first Mac.
Am I correct that System 7 used A:\RESOURCE.FRK\DESKTOP as the Resource Fork data? MacOS
12.5 doesn’t appear to use it. :-)
A bunch of the floppies I’m looking at have this, including ones that appear to be PC
Backups.
That sounds like a floppy disk written by PC Exchange. RESOURCE.FRK would
contain any resource fork for any file in that folder, so at the root
\RESOURCE.FRK\DESKTOP would probably have been the equivalent of the Desktop
folder.
3:47 p.m.
That sounds
like a floppy disk written by PC Exchange. RESOURCE.FRK would
contain any resource fork for any file in that folder, so at the root
\RESOURCE.FRK\DESKTOP would probably have been the equivalent of the Desktop
folder.
Thanks Cameron, that jogs a few old brain cells, and sounds right.
Initially
I’m finding Google has limited knowledge of some of this stuff.
Searching Google for anything related to the classic Mac OS has become more and
more useless (along with everything else Google is getting more and more
useless for). All you get nowadays is little-m macOS. Sometimes I have luck
searching for "System 7.x" but that won't work for Mac OS 8 and 9. :/
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