Re: High Density FD's

[shack@deimos.frii.com (Randy Shackelford)]

In article <13SEP199713172089@vax2.concordia.ca>,
Mitchell Spector <spec@vax2.concordia.ca> wrote:

[snip]

>>For all practical purposes, you can't access 400K disks on a IIgs. They are
>>all in MFS format, and the finder will tell you that the HFS FST doesn't
>>do MFS and makes you eject the disk if you try to use one. I suppose though
>>that you can format 400K ProDOS disks, but why do that?
>
>    Yes you can. There is an Applesoft BASIC program called MacTransGS
>(though despite the name, it runs on all Apple II models) that allows
>you to read data from 400K MFS disks, the kind created by the original 
>Macintosh 128 and 512. It works, I had a copy of Quicken 1.4 which
>shipped on a 400K disk and read it just fine. The program is one way
>only though, you can pull data off but not write to disks.

Well sure, you can always write programs to do stuff that the system doesn't
support. I've written some homemade ProDOS 8 programs to access extended files,
but I wouldn't say that ProDOS 8 can access them since I sorta went around
the file system to make it work.
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Randy Shackelford                                 
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