Re: Stymied ! (Yes I have read the FAQ)

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <3300DD91.7044@interramp.com>,
Atindra Chaturvedi  <usb00378@interramp.com> wrote:
>More specifically, How do I un-binscii and un-shrink and load the disk
>images I downloaded to the 3.5" disks using the Mac.

   Take a look at section 5.* of the FAQ. I go through quite a lot of
detail on how to get binscii running on an Apple II. Section 5.9 deals
with many of the common pitfalls you might run into while downloading
through a mac, and 5.11 details how to get Binscii and Shrinkit up and
running on your Apple II. 

   Note that many have reported problems with their Macs drive
claiming to be writing to 800K 3.5" floppies (make sure it's that
size; Apple II 3.5" drives do not read 1.44MB disks without rare addon
hardware), but the drives are too shoddy (Apple's going cheap in its
old age) to reliably write 800K disks, and the Apple II side can't
read them. This happens mostly with newer Macs; if it's several years
old, it's probably fine.

   Being a Mac worshipper is not a prerequisite for posting on
comp.sys.apple2, or maintaining the FAQ. In order to counter all these
silly .sigs, I think it's time to come up with a real one: "Windows
95= Mac 87 = Mac 97 = Mac 84 = Suckage"

Nathan Mates

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