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Article #39983.0 Mac Floppy Copy Less Than Useful
From: Henry McGilton
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:51
Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:51
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In 3.0, I notice that the ``system'' seems to look only at the Data
Fork of Macintosh files. This is less than useful for Macintosh
format Type 1 font files, which in almost all cases have their
useful data in the resource fork of the file.
Changing directory to the Macintosh floppy and doing ls -1 shows
the Type 1 font to be of length zero, when in fact there's plenty
of font data hiding in there somewhere.
So, one of the major potential uses for 3.0 reading Macintosh floppy
disks is nullified by this behavior. I've looked in the 3.0 release
notes and didn't see anything mentioned about 3.0 and Macintsoh
floppy disks, except for the watning about writing lots of small
files.
Anybody have any great ideas how to deal with these issues in 3.0?
I hope FloppyWorks is OK on 3.0, because I can't seem to do without
using FloppyWorks.
........ Henry
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Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!nntp1.radiomail.net!fernwood!trilithon!henry From: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us (Henry McGilton) Subject: 3.0 Mac Floppy Copy Less Than Useful Message-ID: <1992Nov22.035136.15646@trilithon.mpk.ca.us> Keywords: 3.0, Macintosh, Resources, Forks Sender: henry@trilithon.mpk.ca.us Organization: Trilithon Software Date: Sun, 22 Nov 1992 03:51:36 GMT Lines: 21