Re: copy text files to Macintosh

[labelas@hotmail.com (Labelas Enoreth)]

If you have System 6.0 on the mac, use Apple File Exchange to read the
disk and copy the Text file off of it.
If you have System 7.0 through 7.1, you can use the extension 'ProDOS File
System' (or is it Exchange? hmmm...been so long)
If you have 7.5 through 8.x, then use PC Exchange (which has ProDOS access
built in) to mount the ProDOS disk.
All of these are Apple-made, so you shouldn't have any problems finding them.
If you were trying to copy it using AppleTalk over a network, or even in
many other circumstances, perhaps the Text file did not get properly typed
by the time it reached the macintosh. In this situation, you can either
find a mac utility like Change Type/Creator, FileTyper, or FileBuddy and
change the Type of the file to 'TEXT' from whatever it was. Or maybe open
the file in a IIgs program with text editing capabilities and make sure
that it is saved as raw text before you transfer it.
As for the proper way, a Mac with the previously mentioned accessories can
read both MSDOS and ProDOS disks with no real problem (well, alright,
let's not get started about problems with them) an dit should certainly be
good enough for you to be able to copy a text file over. In fact, PC
Exchange and Apple File Exchange are set up to type files of type .TXT
from MSDOS disks as TEXT files.

> It seems this has been discussed before but I guess I missed it. I have a
> text file on a MSDOS disk that I would like to copy as a ascii TEXT file
> to a Macintosh. I first copied the file to a ProDOS disk and then to HFS
> disk on a Apple IIGS since the Macintosh does not recognize ProDOS disk. I
> then tried using AppleTalk to copy the file from a Apple IIGS to the
> Macintosh. No matter what I tried, the Macintosh did not recognize the
> file as a text file.
> 
> What is the proper way to transfer a TEXT file to a Macintosh from an
> Apple IIGS?
> 
> Marlin