Re: Apple II <-> Commodore 64/128 disks?

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

In article Joe Kohn <joko@crl.com> writes...

>William McBrine <wmcbrine@clark.net> wrote:
> >the Apple II FAQ states that apple disks are incompatible
> >with IBM PC drives, and vice versa
> 
>Oh?
> 
>At KansasFest, with the whole world watching, I popped a blank 3.5"
>HD disk into a SuperDrive attached to a IIGS, and while still in the
>Finder, formatted it for MS-DOS. I then copied some files from my
>Focus hard drive to the MS-DOS formatted disk...all without ever
>leaving the Finder.

    Ahh, sounds like Peter finally completed MUG NDA. This is certainly 
good news, especially since the introduction of Windows 95 seems to (at
least in my experience) rendered the MSDOS.FST unusable.  Whenver you 
write to a disk from Win95, the Finder refuses to see that disk again.
MSDU is able to read and write just fine, but it never was a quick and 
easy task, in fact I found it faster to just format a high-density 
ProDOS diskette and bring it over to the IBM side to read.

    From the sounds of things, MUG is the next best thing to a fully
functional MSDOS.FST (which will probably never happen anyway). :)

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca