Re: bmp

[Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net>]

Supertimer writes ...
> 
> Rubywand <rubywand@swbell.net> wrote:
> 
 ....

> >
> >     Alas, we have just one Zip drive. Moving it from its usual home
> >(the IIgs) to the PC and back is a lot more bother than doing a 56k NULL
> >modem transfer.
> >
> >     Besides, I did not know that you can move files from PC to GS on
> >Zip disk! How is this done?
> 
> Using the MUG! Desk Accessory.  You can use it to read your
> Windows PC formatted Zip disks, VFAT and all.  ;-)
> 
> Just pop the disk into the PC, copy files using Windows 95
> or DOS from the PC hard drive onto the Zip disk, take the
> Zip disk to the IIGS, now from WITHIN AN APPLICATION
> OTHER THAN FINDER (because Finder will try to format
> the PC Zip disk) open the Zip disk with the MUG! desk
> accessory and copy the files to a ProDOS of HFS volume.
> That's all it takes.
>

     Thanks. I'll have to try MUG.

 
> It is still not as transparent as a simple HFS Zip disk between a
> IIGS and a Mac, but it is close.  In the future, I plan to add an
> HFS "FST" type product to my Windows PC and have it access
> HFS Zip disks.

     Yes; Robert Rivkin suggested using a product called "Conversions
Plus".



Rubywand