Re: Zlink Block Error Problems.

["Ernest" <ernestls@home.com>]

Mother puss bucket! OK, does anybody have any of the HD setup utilities on
5.25 disks? I went to transfer easydrive.shk to my A2e but it's 159k, so it
won't fit onto a 5.25 disk. All that I want to do is setup my HD but every
time I think that I'm almost there, I run into the next time sink.


...OK, I just ran down to REPC and picked up an Apple 3.5 external drive
(1988,) plugged my 3.5 controller I/O card (1985) into my Apple IIe Slot 5,
and booted up my system with ProDos 8v1.4 but the system isn't recognizing
the 3.5. I was told that this 3.5 drive was for a IIgs, and that it would
work on my IIe with a 3.5 controller card. Is there some kind of trick to
making this work?

I also picked up a copy of some SCSI utils on a 3.5 ProDos disk but I can't
read it yet... of course. What else would I expect, right? Using this Apple
will never be simple. If there's a way to get it wrong the first time, I'll
find it for sure, and I can't even get a break with "beginner's luck."
Sheesh.


Ernest



Rubywand wrote in message <39352B09.7AF1D8BF@swbell.net>...
>Ernest writes ...
>>
>> Thanks for your help, everybody, and here's an update.
>>
>> I reset the baud rates on both systems to
>> 300, changed them to 8n1, with the
>> Zlink terminal emulation off.
>>
>> Using these settings, I was able to send
>> Chinook.exe across to the Apple IIe
>> (enhanced.) So, I'm finally getting somewhere
>> but the problem is that the
>> Chinook file on the PC is a 21k program file
>> but on the Apple it's an ASCII
>> text file (file type = txt.) When I try to run it, I get a file type
>> mismatch error.
>>
>
>     The ".exe" suffix is sometimes used for self extracting ShrinkIt files
>created by Jerry Kindall's Xtrax program. If Chinook.exe is such a file,
>Paul's suggestion that you EXEC the file should work. Under ProDOS, you
could
>enter
>
>EXEC CHINOOK.EXE
>
>or
>
>-CHINOOK.EXE
>
> ....
>> Is this conversion from an .exe file to an ASCII
>> text file normal? The file
>> saved as Chinook.exe but ProDos thinks that it's a .txt file.
> ....
>
>     Although it looks like the file lost its filetype in the transfer,
this
>actually happened a long time ago when it was first moved to a PC for
>uploading. The file did not change. It's just that filetype information is
>maintained in a ProDOS directory on the ProDOS disk where the file resides,
>not in the file itself.
>
>     The usual default filetype for a file transferred from a PC is going
to
>be Text. The nice thing about Xtrax-created files is that they are are
>supposed to be Text type files.
>
>     There is a way to retain filetype information with an Apple II file.
The
>file can have a Binary prefix tacked on. This is, in general, a bad idea.
The
>prefix is an archaic, Apple-only method which can make the file difficult
to
>deal with on a PC and a problem for users who's telecom utils do not
>automatically strip off the prefix. For example, if your copy of
Chinook.exe
>has a Binary II prefix, it will not work as intended until the prefix is
>stripped off.
>
>     Besides, ShrinkIt archives retain the filetypes of contained files and
>the ShrinkIt archive itself does not need to retain filetype in order to be
>recognized and unshrinked via ShrinkIt.
>
>
>
>Rubyand