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Subject: Filetyping in BASIC. . .
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Date: 5 Jan 91 03:57:00 GMT
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	I just began working on a little programming project that does
some copying of files very, very, very effectively just from basic.
(May I say that it is actually unbelievably fast in comparison to some
market copiers.)
	My only problem is that there is just no way to specify the
aux type of a file from ProDOS.  And only in a few cases is this important
(oddly enough, copying a BASIC file is one of them!), but I still should
make this fully functional.
	I have a little ML program that I found in a magazine that does it,
but I wish to distribute this program to a User's Group and I don't want
to risk disaster for using a tiny little (possibly) copyrighted routine.
I would just be very happy if anyone had any suggestion as to how I can get
around this dilema?  How can I change the aux type of a file when I create
it?  Is there a poke or something?


						William K. Fry
	
						wkf2298@ritvax.isc.rit.edu