Re: Reading ProDOS disks on a Mac

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baja@nando.net (Paul Benson) writes:

>First, the GS no longer reads HFS disks formatted under system 7 on
>the mac.  When did this happen?  Or is this a questionable disk?  The
>disk can be seen on the mac just fine, but on the GS the disk appears
>but no files show up.

My GS burps on those once in a while...  usually just eject the disk and 
pop it back in and all is well.  If that doesn't help, perhaps the disk 
needs to be reformatted...  I have discovered that over time, The GS 
tends to wear out an HFS disk if it does a lot of writing to it.

>Second, on the old mac harddrive (RIP) I had a util which I got from
>Apple which could read GS/OS & ProDOS disks.  I remember having to add
>the util when in system 6, and I know I didn't add it on the new hard
>disk.  I tried to find the util at ftp.apple.com, but nothing rang a
>bell.  So, does anyone remember the name of this file?  Does it work
>in Sys7?  Is it still in ftp.apple.com?

I don't know if it's in ftp.apple.com or not, but Apple File Exchange is 
what you're looking for.  The ProDOS File System Extension is a better 
idea in my opinion, but I think Apple charges for that one.  It comes 
with the newer system software though.  Apple File Exchange should be 
available on ftp.apple.com, I hope, as I know it's available on most of 
the online services...

Dave Miller  aka root@antimatter.ecore.fnet.org Antimatter BBS 517/264-8384
    aka just.dave@genie.com  Apple II Programmers RT (A2Pro) PR Manager