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From: mmunz@pro-beagle.cts.com (Mark Munz)
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Subject: Re: Sys Disk 5.0 Files
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Date: 9 Jul 89 00:02:52 GMT
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Network Comment: to #9223 by pnet01!crash!apple.com!dlyons


> The difficulty is the STORAGE TYPE.  The files in question happen to have
> storage type "extended", meaning that they have a resource fork.  ProDOS 8
> doesn't know about this storage type, so any application that uses the MLI
> "DESTROY" call won't be able to delete it.

So how would one go about deleting an extended file under PRODOS 8?