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From: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: AppleSingle/AppleDouble ?
Message-ID: <14438@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM>
Date: 20 Mar 90 08:04:10 GMT
References: <14075@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM> <1175@madnix.UUCP>
Reply-To: cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson)
Organization: Network Info Systems Ctr., SRI Intl., Menlo Park, CA.
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In article <1175@madnix.UUCP> jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak) writes:
>In article <14075@fs2.NISC.SRI.COM> cwilson@NISC.SRI.COM (Chan Wilson) writes:
>>Hokay, will someone please define AppleSingle and AppleDouble, and where
>>I might find some info on them?  Thanks.
[okay, okay, I found the technotes.  Thanks to all who pointed the way.]
>
>	Who cares? It just needs to exist...
"Presto!" ("uh, Bullwinkle, it doesn't work that way.")

>>Finally, to go MacAFE one better, (maybe) would people find any use
>>to read a Mac hard drive and transfer files off it?
>
>	It'd be nice - you'd have to make your data structures dynamic,
>but I don't think it'd make coding any harder...

Don't even have to do that.  Split your hard drive into two (or more) 
partitions, format one in ProDOS, the other in HFS.  Have to figure out 
how to write GS/OS programs now, 'cause you can't get to the other
side easily (if at all) from Prodos...

>                      Jason Blochowiak - jason@madnix.UUCP
>or, try:         astroatc!nicmad!madnix!jason@spool.cs.wisc.edu

--Chan
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