Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!gem.mps.ohio-state.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL From: SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Sys Disk 5.0 Files Message-ID: <8907201100.aa01057@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Date: 20 Jul 89 14:20:22 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 27 >Network Comment: to #3095 by > pnet01!crash!trout.nosc.mil!pnet01!pro-graphics!bobl > >Why is everybody bitching about ProDOS 8 not supporting forked files? WHY does >ProDOS 8 NEED to support them? How about: You have a IIgs at home and a //e at work which you use as a "smart" high speed terminal to connect to a host from which you can 'ftp' all manner of software? If you want to download forked files to take home to your IIgs, will you be able to manage them? You don't want to tie up your IIgs downloading files at 1200 baud from local bbs's when you have a perfectly serviceable II+ to do that (while you use the IIgs to watch AWGS boot :-) Can you even download forked files? You want to run a Pro-Line with your //e. How do you manage forked files in your archives? Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] Prof. of Marketing Sewall@UConnVM.BITNET Business School sewall%uconnvm.bitnet@mitvma.mit.edu [INTERNET] U of Connecticut {psuvax1 or mcvax }!UCONNVM.BITNET!SEWALL [UUCP] (203) 486-5246 [FAX] (203) 486-2489 [PHONE] 41 49N 72 15W [ICBM] -+- I don't speak for my employer, though I frequently wish that I could (subject to change without notice; void where prohibited)