Re: binary copying 5.25" to modern OS

[applehack@yahoo.com (Dave Morse)]

left_the_scene <postmaster@nyc-strip-clubs.com> wrote in message news:<3C7FDAF9.1090006@nyc-strip-clubs.com>...
> You may not be able to read the 3.5 inch IIGS disk on the mac - depends 
> on what type of mac it is - the newer ones do NOT support GCR format 
> disks. So if you have the latest g4 or I mac, you ar eout of luck.
> 

We dug out an old Mac LC 575, from maybe 1994.  Its running system
8.?, I think.  Reading the GS/OS manual, it said to format a 800k
floppy as "800k 4:1" to make it mac-readable.  Well it mighta been
2:1, but the point is, whatever it said, I did.  The Mac LC would then
compalain it couldn't read the disk, and would I like to initialize
it?  If I did initialze it on the Mac, GS/OS then couldn't read it. 
Maybe I need an older version of Mac OS?

> 
> > 
> > I can't figure out the IIgs command for copying a 5.25" disk to a 3.5"
> > disk.
> 
> 
> There are no copy commands in the apple II command line os'es (ie: 
> prodos 8 or dos 3.3)

o.  unix is rotting my brain.  :)

> Is the dektop in color? if so, you are running some version of GS/OS. 
> You MAY need to get the original install disks for it and install the 
> apple 5.25 inch floppy driver perhaps?

Cool!  Wish I'd known that back in the day!

Now I have a prodos-format 5.25".  If I could just get the dang dos
3.3 format files from dos 3.3 to the prodos disk.   GS/OS refuses to
read dos 3.3 format disks, it seems.