Re: Help transferring ASCII to Apple II via Mac

[tdixon@everest.acpl.lib.in.us (Tim Dixon)]

dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) wrote:

>It's a long shot, but...

>The disks you are having trouble �_�opying...the ones with the BINSCII
>files on them...Are those 800k disks or 5.25" disks?

>If they are 800k'ers, and you are using MacOS System 7.5 (you said you
>were, didn't you...I wasn't paying that close attention...), stick the
>offending disk in and see what happens.

>Once the disk mounts on the Mac desktop, close it and look at the disk
>icon.  Make sure that there is a "II" in the center of the disk icon.  If
>there isn't, then the Mac has pulled one of its dirty little tricks and
>stored your ProDOS files on an HFS disk, which ProDOS is unable to read. 
>If that is the case, then format a fresh 3.5" disk on the ][, and use the
>Mac to copy the file from the �he HFS disk to the ProDOS disk.

>I'm guessing, but that might be your problem.

>This reminds me of a dirty little secret of MacOS 7.5.  If you use
>preformatted disks (most of which are PC format if you buy them that way),
>the Mac will very happily put its Mac files onto the MS-DOS disk, even
>allowing the HFS filenames (!) and resource forks.  You can do this and
>not even notice that there is a problem until you try to use the disk on a
>system with, say, MacOS 7.1...in which case you'll be up a creek.

>Multi file-system compatibility is a nice thing, but it can burn you if
>you're not careful.  I just wish that the Macintoshes at work would handle
>ProDOS disks as well as my GS can handle HFS disks...

>--Dave Althoff, Jr.
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I've got them as ProDOS disks (the II in the middle is there), and I
can seem them when I get a ProDOS catalog of the disk, but their file
type in ProDOS is listed as "Unknown" and it won't let me copy them.


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