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Article #3840Apple File Exchange, curse or blessing?
From: Annard Brouwer
Date: Thu, 31 Aug 1989 19:14
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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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!csd4.csd.uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!mcsun!hp4nl!eutrc3!rcbaab 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 Lines: 22