Re: Wanted: Unix utility to create Apple IIgs 3.5" disks

[dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)]

In article <4tl3bt$km2@srv13s4.cas.org>, lvirden@cas.org wrote:

>I have a SPARC at work, and would like to be able to create floppy disks
>here that my son could use at home.
>
>I remember a few years ago finding a utility for the Mac that would allow
>me to create tar disks and then give them to a friend, who would run a
>special utility on his Mac to read the data.
>
>Has anyone written a similar set of tools, for the Unix side at least,
>which would allow either the SPARC to create Apple II disks or an Apple II
>utility to read SPARC disks - or perhaps a pair of utilities that would
>create some intermediate format that both could read?

I expect that a SPARC machine uses standard 3.5" drives, i.e.
PC-compatible ones.  It is rather unlikely that it would work with
Apple/Mac 400K or 800K disks (GCR encoding), but there are no physical
problems dealing with PC, Mac or Apple II 1.44MB disks (or 720K disks).

It should be possible if you have a high density 3.5" drive on the IIgs,
given the right software.

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