Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!iuvax!rutgers!apple!mattd
From: mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: resource and data forks
Message-ID: <30517@apple.Apple.COM>
Date: 11 May 89 19:32:25 GMT
References: <890511155647.191181@DOCKMASTER.ARPA>
Organization: Apple Computer Inc, Cupertino, CA
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In article <890511155647.191181@DOCKMASTER.ARPA> TMPLee@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL writes:
>Thanks to whoever answered my question.  (Its several messages ago so
>I've forgotten.)  Just to make sure, I interpret that to mean that none
>of the ProSel utilities will work on GS/OS 5.0 -- I sure hope Glen
>Bredon is one of those getting a Beta test version.  Or that Apple will
>come out with as useful a set of utilities.  (I haven't even seen a
>GS/OS technical reference yet, much less studied it -- I didn't know it
>was generally available.)
>
>TMPLee@Dockmaster.ncsc.mil

I didn't say that at all, or much of anything like it.

ProDOS 8 will not deal with extended files.  Extended files are only present
on ProDOS disks through the ProDOS FST in GS/OS.  They may be present under
any version of GS/OS, since the first one had them as well.

Any utility running under ProDOS 8 will not be able to operate normally with
extended files.  Any utility running under GS/OS can deal normally with extended
files, but many of them don't.  It is all up to the application author.

It has nothing to do with "GS/OS 5.0", which doesn't really exist (the version
of GS/OS on Apple IIgs System Software 5.0 is GS/OS version 2.1).  It has to
do with ProDOS 8 vs. GS/OS, and how the applications were written.


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