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From: labc-3dc@e260-3f.berkeley.edu (Andy McFadden)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple
Subject: Re: resource forks
Summary: That's why we tossed BLU...
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Date: 20 May 89 21:23:57 GMT
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In article <1103@n8emr.UUCP> lwv@n8emr.UUCP (Larry W. Virden) writes:
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>So this is another programming construct to make life easier in some cases.
>Not that that is bad - but it isnt adding truely new functionality to the
>user as such, right?

Resource editors give the user a great deal of flexibility... check out
ResEdit on the Mac sometime.

>As for a lot of the replys to several of the expressed concerns about 
>resource files, my own reply is - it seems a shame to cause existing, fully
>functional programs to no longer function for a programming construct.

What?  Just because Copy II Plus can't deal with the files doesn't mean
anything...

>For instance, I assume that I will not be able to upload or download forked
>files with TIC, I wont be able to move them or copy them with ECP8, kermit
>wont be able to up or download the files, Zlink is out of luck, cat.doctor
>(and the other prosel tools except for mr.fixit) wont be able to be blanketly
>used on disks with forks on them, etc.  In other words, most of the utility
>software that I have paid for or have available for use will not work.

Wrong!  Where there's a will, there's a way.  You can either a) download them
in two pieces (splitting/joining programs shouldn't be hard to write), or b)
use the new version of ShrinkIt that is coming Real Soon Now.

>Instead, I have to find substitutes written in GS/OS for the software to
>use at least for this special case.

Yeah, like Cat Doctor GS (part of ProSEL-16).

>AND, I then have to wait until the authors of the GS/OS versions get around
>to updating to handle forked files.

Since Apple is usually pretty good about letting developers know the general
direction they're heading, I don't think you will have long to wait.  Andy
Nicholas has promised a version that handles forked files, and I'm sure that
ProSEL-16 will be able to.  Fact is, until the new GS/OS system disk is
released, nobody can use them anyway.

>Or, I can go on working as I am not and just realize that there will be
>features on my GS that I wont be able to use for a year or so.

>Larry W. Virden	 674 Falls Place, Reynoldsburg, OH 43068 (614) 864-8817

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