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From: mmunz@pro-sol.cts.com (Mark Munz)
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Subject: Re: Sys Disk 5.0 Files
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Date: 15 Jul 89 16:13:08 GMT
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>Then again...maybe there isn't *room* for the code.  16K isn't just gobs of

>room for an OS.  DESTROY isn't the only command that could conceivably be

>modified to deal with extended files--as soon as people could delete the

>things, they'd also want to be able to OPEN the forks & work with them, so

>most of the calls would need changes.  Considering that there still wouldn't

>be a resource manager under ProDOS 8, how useful would it be?




If Prodos 8 can no longer support the manipulation of GS/OS Extended files,
they might as well be Macintosh files... what's the difference, Prodos 8
can't do anything with either (without extensive help).

Worse yet is that I have to go into GS/OS every time I want to copy, delete,
etc the new files, and that will take twice as long.

My greatest gripe is something I didn't realize until I read it. The fact
that no backup utility supports GS/OS 5.0 yet.  So my hard drive happens to
crash.. I can kiss a lot of work goodbye.