Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!iuvax!cica!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!agate!apple!dlyons From: dlyons@Apple.COM (David Lyons) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Sys Disk 5.0 Files Message-ID: <33442@apple.Apple.COM> Date: 25 Jul 89 03:43:44 GMT References: <8907201100.aa01057@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA Lines: 34 In article <8907201100.aa01057@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> SEWALL@UCONNVM.BITNET (Murph Sewall) writes: [reasons P8 ought to support extended files] >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? Considering that no communications programs support downloading extended files directly, this probably isn't a problem. Typically you'll download standard (nonextended) files and then unpack them as necessary. So you download at work & extract them at home. (See Apple II Miscellaneous Technical Note #14: Guidelines for Telecommunications programs, as well as the new File Type Notes for Binary II files and NuFX files. This stuff is dated July 1989. Oh, and don't forget AppleSingle and AppleDouble from May, I think.) >You want to run a Pro-Line with your //e. How do you manage forked files >in your archives? No problem...store them in an archival format as standard files. >Murph Sewall Vaporware? ---> [Gary Larson returns 1/1/90] --Dave Lyons, Apple Computer, Inc. | DAL Systems AppleLink--Apple Edition: DAVE.LYONS | P.O. Box 875 AppleLink--Personal Edition: Dave Lyons | Cupertino, CA 95015-0875 GEnie: D.LYONS2 or DAVE.LYONS CompuServe: 72177,3233 Internet/BITNET: dlyons@apple.com UUCP: ...!ames!apple!dlyons My opinions are my own, not Apple's.