Re: Moving files from Mac to Apple II

[olcott <olcott@qwest.net>]

It seems that I ONLY get the correct answers
from the "inappropriate" groups, those groups
that are directly focused on answering these
questions most typically do not bother responding.

If every mac question is forwarded to every mac
group, I get answers. Actual inappropriate
groups would be comp.sys.cbm, alt.c64,
comp.sys.atari.*... or how about
alt.religion.christianity or alt.philosophy.debate.

I wish that people would STOP bugging me about
this. In this case "netiquette" is simply WRONG !!!
Don't be a mindless robot conforming to arbitrary
convention... Don't do or refrain from doing
ANYTHING because of any rule, base ALL of
your decisions and actions on REASONING ALONE...

Matt Ackeret wrote:

> First, you sent this to FAR FAR FAR too many newsgroups.
>
> (1) it's not an Apple II *programming* question
> (2) it really doesn't seem really appropriate for *any* of the Mac groups
> you listed..
>
> But I'll be a hypocrite and forward it on anyway..
>
> In article <3A67441A.A9AEE4A1@qwest.net> you write:
> >I have a bunch of different Macs, and I have
> >a bunch of different Apple II's. I need to move
> >files from a PC formatted Superdrive disk to an
> >Apple ProDos formatted disk.
>
> MSDOS.. Do you mean a 1.4 meg floppy?
>
> >I tried this with an Apple II GS, and a Mac
> >Classic II, and the Mac could see the ProDOS
> >(Formatted on the IIGS) but whenever I copied
> >files to it, I get an error -37. I guessed  that this
> >might have been because I was using a HD disk
> >formatted as DD, but, I got the same error on a
> >DD 3.5 disk.
>
> From MacErrors.h, -37 is:
>   bdNamErr                      = -37,  /*there may be no bad names in the
> final system!*/
>
> Thus you are trying to copy filenames with invalid names to the ProDOS
> disk.  (Kind of hard to believe.. they're 8.3 names, aren't they?)
>
> If these are actually disks you can read on a GS (on a GS with a SuperDrive
> card and a SuperDrive(*)), you could try doing the copy entirely on the
> GS with the MSDOS FST (read only), and it'll give you a dialog for each
> file with a suggested new name..  That may be tedious though.
>
> (*) Once again, Apple resuses a cool name for something new..  Sigh..
> first AppleSoft (it was a name for a division inside Apple at one point,
> then AppleWorks, now SuperDrive..
>
> --
> mattack@area.com