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Re: PC Exchange (Mac System 7.5)



In article <3kodnu$8ss@acme.freenet.columbus.oh.us>,
dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff) wrote:

> Is it just me, or is the ProDOS FST on the Macintosh a heck of a lot
> *slower* than the HFS FST in GS/OS 6.0??  This morning at work, I popped
> an Appleworks data disk into one of the Quadra 660AV's.  Then I started up
> NCSA Telnet on the machine next to it and checked my e-mail, composed a
> couple of responses, and logged out before my ProDOS disk would even
> mount!  Then, when I tried to copy a file to the Mac hard drive, it sat
> and crunched for about ten minutes before crashing to a "File could not be
> read because an error of type -81 occurred" dialog.  Sheesh!  Then the
> AppleWorks translator made mincemeat of my AWP document.

It's not just you.  Although PC Exchange in System 7.5 is a bit faster it
seems, its still -slow-... but, for me at least, it works.

As for the resource thing, I know that happened with older versions of the
software, but I have not tried with PC Echange 2.0.  It might still be
there.


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