Re: Mac fork stipper program MIA (needed for A2s)

[shack@onyx.southwind.net (Randy Shackelford)]

spambait (spambait@stopspam.org) wrote:
: In article <Pine.ULT.3.96.970309135234.22800B-100000@occs.cs.oberlin.edu>,
: Toby Reiter <treiter@cs.oberlin.edu> wrote:

: =>PC...oh, wait, we can't.  Of course, setting up terminal programs
: =>correctly on two machines, finding or building a null modem cable long
: =>enough to reach both machines, correctly sending and receiving the file by
: =>modem at a speed of about 19.2k/sec or lower, is much easier than setting
: =>up the necessary utility on the Mac so you can stick in a ProDOS disk,
: =>copy the file, and then put it right in the Apple II.  Don't forget 

: Uh - ever hear of a cute little init for the Mac called the ProDOS File
: System Extension?  It allows reading and writing of ProDOS disks directly
: by the Mac.

Pay attention, spam boy. The person you're quoting knows how to get a Mac
to read ProDOS disks, he's pointing out what a bitch it would be to try
to get files from a peecee to an Apple II.

: It's quite secret, very rare to find it, though...  it only comes on every
: Mac System Install set since System 7.0 or so, or from the Software Update
: public FTP sites at Apple.

It's an obsolete, buggy piece of crap. And superseded by PC Exchange which is
included with 7.5 and up. The ProDOS extension was distributed only with the
LC //e card software. You could say the same for Apple File Exchange, an app
which used to come with system software released last decade or so.
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Randy Shackelford
shack@southwind.net