🚀 go-pugleaf

In article <3711AA6C.49057EE5@cs.strath.ac.uk>,
Archie Crawford CES1998 <acrawfor@cs.strath.ac.uk> wrote:

>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.  

That's not right; I used my Zip drive happily with both Mac and PC
formatted carts, under sys 7.5.2, on a 7500/100, with Zip driver version
5.0.3.

Not only that but I was able to use the same drive and PC cart on an
ancient LC2 at work, running sys 7.1 (I think it was), when clearing out
the content of an old LAN server and transferring it to a PC. I simply
added PC Exchange B1-2.0.5 (which came with sys 7.5.2) to the LC2's
extensions. That's because the sys 8 version B1-2.2.1 won't run on older
Macs.

The only problem was that while 2.2.1 will properly handle long file names
and transfer them correctly to Win95, 2.0.5 won't; however, it truncates
the names quite intelligently.

The sight of that creaking LC2, which had been built before Zips were a
gleam in Iomega's eye (or even before PC Exchange had been issued),
chuntering along copying 6000 files to a PC formatted cart without a single
hesitation or error warmed the heart.... Mind you, it did take a while...

It was all for my favourite film achivist- the Best in the Known Universe.
I was rewarded with a kiss. Indeed, Macs (and Zips) are wonderful things.

-- 
Peter