Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!apple!dlyons
From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Sys Disk 5.0 Files
Message-ID: <33205@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 17 Jul 89 05:27:18 GMT
References: <8907160019.AA01259@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <8907160019.AA01259@crash.cts.com> pnet01!pro-sol!mmunz@nosc.mil writes:
>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).

"No longer"??  ProDOS 8 has never supported manipulation of extended files.
I, for one, am glad to be able to use the same disks for extended files and
nonextended ProDOS 8-readable files.  Most of my files aren't extended.

>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.

Why is going into GS/OS a bad thing?

Twice as long as what?

>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.

No special backup utility has to exist.  Any existing ProDOS 8-based backup
utility that does an image backup of your volume will work with no problem.
Same for GS/OS-based image backup utilities, except possibly if you're trying
to back up your boot volume.

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