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From: gwyn@smoke.BRL.MIL (Doug Gwyn)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Copying System 5.0 to /ram5
Message-ID: <13959@smoke.BRL.MIL>
Date: 28 Sep 90 19:49:02 GMT
References: <44521@apple.Apple.COM> <13739@smoke.BRL.MIL> <8atGHuW00VpDI0tkZC@andrew.cmu.edu>
Organization: U.S. Army Ballistic Research Laboratory, APG, MD.
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In article <8atGHuW00VpDI0tkZC@andrew.cmu.edu> cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles William Swiger) writes:
>>"File forks" are an invention of the devil, or at least of someone who
>liked unnecessary complexity.
>...  The original theory was that ...

I know all that.  However, it is not necessary to devise file forks in
order to attain all those goals.  If the following code does not suffice
to completely duplicate an object's contents, then the object has
unnecessary structure:
	while ((c = getc(ifp)) != EOF)
		putc(c, ofp);