Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ANDREW.CMU.EDU!bh1e+ From: bh1e+@ANDREW.CMU.EDU (Brendan Gallagher Hoar) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: forked files Message-ID: Date: 13 Jul 89 23:02:45 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 18 --- On the subject of extended files... Not being a programmer of any real talent, I haven't ever written any system programs (or anything that makes Apple ProDOS 8 MLI calls)... so... assuming that deleting a file is done by issuing the MLI DESTROY call (correct so far?), programs that follow Apple's standards for working with ProDOS-GS/OS disks at the file level should be able to delete a file by doing so. Shouldn't the ProDOS 8 released with GS/OS 5.0 support DESTROYING extended files? If it doesn't, it would seem to me that Apple isn't supporting the extended file format as a PRODOS extension (it is used thru the ProDOS FST, isn't it?), but merely as a GS/OS extension to ProDOS. And if they are doing that, why not just totally rewrite it, since it makes it incompatible? Or am I just severly confused (and definitely confusing)? :) bh1e+@andrew.cmu.edu