Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!julius.cs.uiuc.edu!psuvax1!rutgers!rochester!pt.cs.cmu.edu!o.gp.cs.cmu.edu!andrew.cmu.edu!jh4o+ From: jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeffrey T. Hutzelman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Copying System 5.0 to /ram5 Message-ID: Date: 5 Sep 90 22:48:15 GMT References: <13181@netcom.UUCP> <44521@apple.Apple.COM>, <13739@smoke.BRL.MIL> Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA Lines: 17 In-Reply-To: <13739@smoke.BRL.MIL> In <13739@smoke.BRL.MIL>, gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn) writes: > More importantly, Copy II Plus, like practically all existing ProDOS-8 > copy utilities, when copying on a file-by-file basis fails to copy the > resource fork of extended files. Thus if you try to install IIGS System > Disk 5.0.2 files by such means, the resulting OS will not work right. Actually, because of the way extended files are stored, ProDOS 8 programs that don't know about extended files can't copy them at all; see ProDOS 8 TN #25, which Matt Deatherage posted earilier. ----------------- Jeffrey Hutzelman America Online: JeffreyH11 Internet/BITNET:jh4o+@andrew.cmu.edu, jhutz@drycas.club.cc.cmu.edu >> Apple // Forever!!! <<