From: Robert Jensen <bob_jensen@jhuapl.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.apple2
Subject: ConvertForks (was UNFORK) converts forked files to standard files
Date: 3 Sep 1996 13:30:44 GMT
Organization: JHU/APL
Message-ID: <50hbu4$p98@aplinfo.jhuapl.edu>

ConvertForks is a ProDOS system file that runs on any Apple II.
ConvertForks is freeware.

ConvertForks will convert ProDOS forked files to standard
ProDOS 8 files. It will also convert them back to the
orginal forked files. It is volume oriented, which distinguishes
it from similar programs.

If a floppy is formatted on a Macintosh as a ProDOS volume,
and documents are copied from the Mac to the floppy, then
these files are often not readable under ProDOS 8 because
they contain both a data and a resource fork. Even if the
files are not forked the volume will contain a DeskTop file
that cannot be deleted. ConvertForks makes everything fine
for ProDOS 8.

ConvertForks operates upon an entier volume. Its intended
application is floppies being carried from one system (a Mac,
for example) to an Apple II.

The previous release was called UNFORK. It had a name that was
too much like the program UnForkIt and it did not include the
ability to refork the volume.