Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!know!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uwm.edu!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!madnix!jason From: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: a2fx/hfslink Summary: Writing to an HFS disk seems pointless Message-ID: <1591@madnix.UUCP> Date: 13 Oct 90 18:23:47 GMT References: <9010051457.AA18841@apple.com> Reply-To: jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak) Organization: ARP Software, Madison, WI Lines: 29 jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) writes: [Some other stuff deleted] >For that matter, are there any plans in the works to enable these >programs to WRITE Mac files? I would like some two-way capabilities! Although it'd be kinda neat, why bother? Anyone who has a Mac has Apple File Exchange for it, and can therefore read ProDOS disks. So, the folks with Macs can read our disks, and (assuming a2fx and/or HFSLink get done) we can read theirs - hence, information can be transferred in both directions. Of course, unless I'm really missing something, AFE doesn't support ProDOS filesystem forked files. For the most part, though, that doesn't matter, as the resource fork formats are different enough to be useless without conversion. MPW's DuplicateIIgs command is the only thing I know about on the Mac that lets you copy resource forks from HFS to ProDOS, and it may be doing something to the fork in the process (I dunno - I just use it, I haven't disassembled it, yet ;). >|Jeremy Mereness | Support | Ye Olde Disclaimer: | >|jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (internet) | Free | The above represent my| >|a700jm7e@cmccvb (Vax... bitnet) | Software| opinions, alone. | -- Jason B. - jason@madnix.UUCP or astroatc!nicmad!madnix!jason@spool.cs.wisc.edu I'm now working at SoftDisk, Inc. Of course, what I say is what I say, and not what they say... I will be calling this account for awhile & dealing with mail here, but I won't be calling nearly as frequently as I used to.