Re: Apple and linux question

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wbdesnoy@acs2.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill) wrote:

>It is unfortunate, but Linux for your 486 will never be able to access
>800kb ProDOS floppies as the format of the diskettes are all wrong on the
>hardware level (and no file system can tell your IBM floppy controller to
>access 800kb diskettes).

Since he has a Mac with a Zip drive, I recommend stealing it for the
IIGS.  IIGS with Zip drive can read and write MS-DOS FAT formatted
Zip disks using MUG!.

>One suggestion though would be to connect your Linux machine to the IIGS
>via the serial port.  After getting a z-modem file transfer program on the
>IIGS, and "sz" onto your Linux box, you can cut the Mac out altogether.
>Not to mention that the IIGS would also be useful as an extra terminal for
>RedHat (you do your e-mail while somebody else is using the web).

If you install GNO/ME on the IIGS, you can even have the IIGS version
of "sz" send something to the Linux box in the background and do
something like word process on a destop program at the same time.