Re: Using a PC to write IIGs-readable files

[lachlan_arnott@my-deja.com]

> If you are talking about writing files to a diskette which you can pop
> into a IIgs equipped with standard Apple II drives, then, no. There is > no purely software way of doing that.


Not directly from PC to GS, but if you're prepared to go via a
(not too ancient) Mac, there's a method that doesn't involve protocol
transfers / Trackstar cards etc., as long as the file will fit onto
a standard GS 800K floppy (one assumes that this is what is required).

1.  On the PC, write your file to a 1.4 Mb MSDOS-formatted floppy.

2.  Take the disk to a Mac that can directly read PC floppies.
    Copy the file FROM the PC floppy TO the Mac HD.

3.  Format an 800K floppy with Mac HFS (Mac HFS - Not ProDos).
    - Not sure about other net-chums out there, but Hell froze over in
    the time I tried to consistently write from Macs to ProDos 800K
    floppies.

4.  Copy the GS file FROM the Mac HD TO the Mac-formatted 800K floppy.

5.  Take the 800K to a GS running Sys 6 with the Mac HFS utility
    installed.

    Without a GS HD, you'll need twin 800K GS drives, and GS Sys 6 on a
    single disk. Sys 6.0 with the HFS extension fits onto one disk with
    a few K spare -(enough to also fit the DOS 3.3 utility if you like).

6.  Copy/Read/Launch the file under GS OS 6 - there you go.


I know, it's circuitous, ponderous, equipment-intensive....guilty on
all counts, your honour.  But it DOES work - without a null modem.

Escape-clause caveat: You haven't specified what type of file you want
to transfer, so no money-back guarantees.

Cheers,


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