Re: problem transferring AOL/iMac text files to Apple II

[Pim Blokland <nipp@plane.nl>]

Obsbedia2 wrote:
> 
> I formatted a floppy for ProDOS, dragged
> the mail icons (which had been saved as text files) over the ProTYPE (version
> 1.1) icon to strip away the resource fork, 

Have you tried other programs than ProType to remove the resource fork?
Netscape can do it - just drag the file to Netscape and "Save as..."

> and then dragged the icons on to the
> floppy's icon.  I transferred the files from the 1.4MB diskette to a ProDOS
> formatted 800K diskette on the Mac at school.

And what happens if you use a HFS diskette to take the files from one
Mac to another?

> When I tried importing the files
> via AppleWorks on the IIe, I can only read 8 out of the 25 or so files.

What error do you get? Can't the disk be read? Can you access the
files with other programs? (like, can they be copied with CopyIIplus?)

> I thought that a text file was a text file.

They should be... File type still OK after going through all the conversions?
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