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From: delton@pro-carolina.UUCP (Don Elton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: re: resource forks
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Date: 19 May 89 04:49:15 GMT
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Network Comment: to #2764 by obsolete!TMPLee%dockmaster.arpa

ProDOS 8 can't use resource files anyway since they are GS/OS objects
(applications or data files or whatever).  The only real limitation with this
incompatibility would be that a P8 program that didn't use block access
wouldn't be able to copy or backup the files.  A P8 program that knows about
the special format of forked files could always read the index blocks and get
to the data anyway though.  There's also no real reason why P8 couldn't be
updated to include the two types of OPEN present in GS/OS though again only
programs written after this change would be able to use the files.

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