Re: Mac to Apple transfer - PLEASE HELP!

[Margaret Balut <mbalut@mediaone.net>]

Thanks, if you could create a ProDOS image, with ShrinkIt, binscii, and
tchange, I would really appreciate.  Maybe it would work...

If all else fails, I can always dig out my old Quadra 630, and try to create
disks on it ...  because maybe you are right that the PowerMac's floppy
drive has a hard time writing to the DSDD disks.

Margaret

> From: Greg Buchner <nobody@wavetech.net>
> Organization: Onvoy
> Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
> Date: Wed, 03 May 2000 22:50:58 GMT
> Subject: Re: Mac to Apple transfer - PLEASE HELP!
> 
> In article <39107733.2FC28476@swbell.net>, rubywand@swbell.net wrote:
> 
>> Margaret Balut writes ...
>>> 
>> ....
>>> 1. ProTYPE program for the Mac - It simply dosn't work for me.  It does
>>> change the icon picture to a generic one, and shortens the file, but
>>> once I
>>> transfer the converted file to the ProDOS disk, it still appears as
>>> type
>>> $00.
>> ....
>> 
>> When you use ProType on a file does it automatically set a file type
>> (besides $00)?  If it doesn't, there may be some option you are supposed
>> to
>> click to set filetype.
> 
> I think that renaming the Binscii.exe file to binscii.txt (if I remember
> what the file you're referring to is for certain) and then dropping it
> on ProType will work better.  ProType I think only handles P8 extensions
> that it understands like .txt, .shk. .s16 and things like that.  I don't
> think .exe is a normal from anything I've read.
> 
> Greg B.
> 
> PS.  Margaret...does your PowerMac have a floppy drive?  If you list what
> files you'd like on a disk, I could probably get them all and create a
> Mac DiskCopy image for trying to create the disk on your Mac...it's just
> that most PowerMacs seem to have a problem writing to the 800K disks
> that the IIGS uses.
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