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Apple File Exchange, curse or blessing?

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From: Annard Brouwer
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1989 19:14
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Hello fellow networkers,

After having tried to work with the Apple File Exchange utility on a SE/30,
I'm having second thoughts of the usage of it.
I wanted to convert some files from Mac format to MS-Dozzz format. I read the
files from the floppies to harddisk and wanted to initialize them to MS-Dozz,
no go. No problem, we will take a PC and format them there and put them in
the drive again. No go. "This disk is unreadable", and it ask if I want to
format it in Macintosh format 720k or 800k, or in ProDos 800k. And MS-DOS was
in grey so I couldn't select it.
My question: can anybody tell me what the use of such a program is? (And I
tried this on several machines!).
Btw don't tell me how I can make it work now, cause I used the old-fashioned
null-modem technique to make the conversion.
Apple: Is it so difficult to make the drivers MS-Dozzz and ProDOS 'compatible'
(I don't like the word but I can't find a more appropriate one...)?
Well gotta go to fill my Mac-floppies with some magnetic fields, thanks in
advance for _any_ replies.

Have a nice day.
	Annard
 
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From: rcbaab@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl (Annard Brouwer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Apple File Exchange, curse or blessing?
Keywords: Mac, MS-Dozzz, floppy drives, FDHD
Message-ID: <884@eutrc3.urc.tue.nl>
Date: 31 Aug 89 19:14:34 GMT
Organization: Eindhoven University of Technology, The Netherlands
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