Re: ZIP formats

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From: Archie Crawford CES1998
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 00:00

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Paul Womar wrote:
> 
> Ben Lovejoy <ben@lovejoy.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> > I need to cart a lot of files from a PowerBook to a Windows laptop. The
> > PowerBook has a ZIP drive, and I'm planning to get a ZIP for the Windows
> > machine - are the Mac and PC formats compatible?
> 
> Not exactly but that's what PC exchange is for.  Use a PC formatted one
> (normal FAT or whatever they call it) and it should be fine.

This is not entirely true.  A PC formated Zip will not work on a Mac
unless it has one of these two versions of the Mac OS 8.1 or 8.5, I am
not sure which version it was that incorparated PC support.  Any Mac OS
7 machine will not be able to use a PC formatted zip, believe me I have
tried.  

The PC exchange works fine for floppy's because the drive is physically
capable or reading a PC formatted disk.  This is the same for the Zip
drive but I think there is somethinmg to do with the drivers, the ones
on the disk or the ones on the system folder.

Archie Crawford

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