Re: Help with IIgs

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In article <32B26DB3.7D8F@unixg.ubc.ca>, Ben Lai <benlai@unixg.ubc.ca>
writes:

>
>Marvin wrote:
>> 
>> Try to get Iomega's Zip Drive. It comes with 100 MB disks and allows
you
>> to easily exchange large amounts of data with other Zip drive users.
>
>Since GS/OS 6.0.1 can read MS-DOS files, so I guess a IIgs can read both
>MS-DOS or Mac formatted Zip disk, is this correct?  
>

     If you format a Zip disk as a single, non-partitioned, HFS volume, it
should be readable on a GS or Mac. (By the way, HFS formatted Zip disks
are handy for storing piles of DOS 3.3 files.)
 

>Does this mean I can download .bsc or .shk files with my PC and then
>transfer it to my IIgs (provided that I have the hardware)? 
> 

     Downloading .shk, etc. Apple II files on a PC and moving them to your
GS works fine. The only hardware you need is modem cables and a NULL modem
connector.


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