Re: question on Standards for files

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

Pim Blokland <nipp@nipp.nl> wrote:

>god23@heaven.org (Bart) wrote:
>
>> My question: how do you folks normally get these on to your IIs?
>
>When at home,I usually download using the Mac, after which I can access 
>it from the GS using the AppleTalk network. Or directly from Bernie.
>At work (that is, when I used to have a job) I download using a Windows 
>machine onto a ZIP disk, which I then can read on the Mac. My GS has 
>great difficulties reading Windows ZIP disks, but the Mac hasn't, so I 
>have to use AppleTalk to access it.
>I know, hardly worth two cents, since it involves a Mac, which you don't 
>have, but, well, you asked...

My GS easily reads Windows Zip disks.  What seems to be the
problem?  The MS-DOS FST does not read Zip disks, by the
way.  You need to use MUG!.  Download MUG! and give it a try.
Between Windows and the GS is much easier and faster than
putting a Mac in the middle.

If you don't have MUG! (download an evaluation version from the
ground ftp server), I may understand your problem.  But if you
DO have MUG!, then WHY does your GS have great difficulty
reading Windows Zip disks?  My GS not only easily reads
these disks, it easily writes them as well!  And once a user
pays the shareware fee, the version of MUG! they get can then
FORMAT Windows Zip disks too, so what's the problem?