Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!claris!jazzman
From: jazzman@claris.com (Sydney R. Polk)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: forked files...
Message-ID: <10142@claris.com>
Date: 13 May 89 02:37:24 GMT
References: <8905121810.AA13722@batman.moravian.edu>
Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara CA
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From article <8905121810.AA13722@batman.moravian.edu>, by nicholaA@moravian.EDU (Andy Nicholas):
> 
> Just thought I'd add a little something to what Larry Virden was saying --
> Current versions of ShrinkIT, because they run under P8, will not handle
> forked files.  At all.
> 
> The GS/OS version of ShrinkIt will handle and archive forked files properly.
> Previous versions of shrinkit, upon encountering an archived forked file,
> will just skip the resource fork and extract only the data fork.
> 
> andy

Actually, all prodos 8 programs will ignore such files, as any attempted
access will return an error ("unsupported file type")

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