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From: kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kent Andrew Dickey)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: Sys Disk 5.0 files
Message-ID: <9604@phoenix.Princeton.EDU>
Date: 26 Jul 89 03:23:09 GMT
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Reply-To: kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Kent Andrew Dickey)
Organization: Princeton University, NJ
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In article <8907240953.aa02146@SMOKE.BRL.MIL> DANFUZZ@BROWNVM.BITNET (Dan Bornstein) writes:
>
>>From:         David Lyons <dlyons@APPLE.COM>
>>
>>In article <8907121556.AA03760@crash.cts.com> pnet01!pro-sol!mmunz@nosc.mil
>> writes:
>>>Why can't Apple just update PRODOS to support deleting of extended files..
>>>it seems like that would be the simplest solution.
>>> ...

>>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.
>
>Yes, I realize that there isn't room for resource stuff in the language card
>banks of RAM (funny how it's still called a "language card", no?)

Well, I offer a compromise: If ProDOS 8 is being run on a //gs, then
there should be extra code loaded in and placed in upper memory (just
use the memory manager) that would allow manipulation of forked files.
I agree that there doesn't seem to be a pressing need for manipulating
forked files on non //gs's (they should be in archives), but I like to
do most of my housekeeping from ProDOS 8 (mainly because booting into
the Finder just takes too long...while I can use Cat.Doctor in under 3
seconds from power-up).  ProDOS 8, if run on a //gs, should support
forked files (memory limitations wouldn't apply).

For other //'s, a simple utility program would work well.  But, don't
expect it from Apple--they can't even provide us with ANY program to
convert Mac disks.

Oh yeah, did anyone here go to the Apple II developers convention in
Kansas?  Anything interesting happen?  

				Kent Dickey
kadickey@phoenix.Princeton.Edu
kadickey@PUCC