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- RFZap 1.0
-
- Copyright © 1993
- Paul Lemieux
- 905 Union Street
- Cary, NC 27511
- AOL: PaulLX
- Internet: lpl@epavax.rtpnc.epa.gov
- AppleSeeds BBS
- 919-481-4896 HST 16.8 bps, FIDONet 1:151/152
- 919-469-5867 14.4 bps
-
- RFZap is a small drop-box type application that deletes the resource
- fork of any file. The need for RFZap came about because the FIDONet
- mailer Tabby has problems with the resource forks of files, which
- result in a trashed resource fork. This would not be a problem for
- most archive files like Stuffit, since the archive is in the data
- fork. However, some Mac Bulletin Boards (BBSs), including TeleFinder,
- FirstClass, and NovaLink use the resource fork of the archive file
- to hold a description. If a file's resource fork is trash, then you
- can't edit or add a description. Previously, the only way to fix a
- Stuffit archive with a bad resource fork is to uncompress it and
- recompress it. Now, simply by dropping the archive onto RFZap the
- offending resource fork will be deleted.
-
- CAUTION: Be careful about what files you drop on RFZap! Deleting
- the resource fork of an application (except self-extracting archives)
- will TOTALLY DESTROY the application.
-
- RFZap was written in MPW Pascal. It is based on the very nice little
- DropShell program written by Leonard Rosenthol and Stephan Somogyi.
- Since Leonard and Stephan took the time to write DropShell and give it
- away for free, I can't ethically charge for RFZap, since it was only
- the work of a few hours.
-
- Special Behavior of RFZap
- 1) Compact Pro, DiskDoubler and Stuffit Deluxe self-extracting archives
- are changed into their non-self-extracting counterparts.
-
- Future Plans
- 1) Change extensions of converted .sea's to the right extension.
- 2) Change the cursor while the files are being converted.
- 3) Fine-tuning the buffer size (currently data is read and
- written in 64K chunks).
- 4) Better parsing of error codes. They are checked now, but the
- process just aborts if anything goes wrong.
-
- Release History
-
- 1.0 - August 8, 1993; Fixed DiskDoubler SEA creator.
-
- 1.0b2 - June 6, 1993; Fixed splash screen's title and content.
- Added support for DiskDoubler .sea's
- confirmation prior to zapping executables,
- including applications, DA's, INITs, cdevs,
- printer drivers, and RDEVs.
-
- 1.0b1 - May 21, 1993; First public release