14 Mar
2001
14 Mar
'01
10:54 a.m.
I wrote:
>It turns out that the ProDOS 8 filesystem supports
files with two forks
>(just like the Mac filesystem does) but I have never found an 8-bit Apple
>program that can handle those files. If Shrinkit shows a + next to the file
>type or you get an error $4B from ProDOS, your file is a forked file.
John Foust wrote:
A quick search on "prodos appledouble"
turned up a number
of links that gave me the (perhaps uninformed) impression that
programs could make them and manipulate them.
I thought AppleDouble separated the forks into two files. Anyway,
although utility programs undoubtedly do exist, I didn't have any
that night, and it was just easier to use Apple File Exchange.
-- Derek