Re: Apple][gs and Quadra 660AV HFS conflict

[taob@ionews.io.org (Brian Tao)]

[OK, I'm a bit behind in my news reading, so bite me]  ;-)

In article <NTXgJc6w165w@ersys.edmonton.ab.ca>, Herbert Fung writes...
> 
> I'm not sure if this is similar to your problem, but I have noticed that
> on occasion, HFS disks formatted on my GS will not be read properly. The
> Macs occasionally will indicate that the disk is damaged. It seems that
> Macs are a little more sensitive to the bulk floppies I use.

    I get the same impression.  I had downloaded some Newton software
for a friend which I placed on an HFS disk formatted on the GS. 
Verified and unpacked fine (it was a 1.5.1 StuffIt archive).  On his
PowerMac 6100/60, there was an I/O error reading one file.  Fine.  I
made another disk (he had used the first disk for something in the
meantime) and tried it again.  Again, the files verified fine on the GS.
Back to the Mac.  A different file refused to copy this time.  Since it
was only a 60K file, I just modemed it over to him that night.

    Observation:  these files were StuffIt archives in MacBinary.  I had
zero hassles unpacking them using GS/ShrinkIt.  On the Mac however, it
took three technicians (my friend works at a Mac dealer) to figure out
how to unpack the darn thing.  For one, most Mac software insists that
files have the correct creator and file types.  Once that was solved,
none of the standard decompression utils would touch a file wrapped in
MacBinary.  Finally, we found someone's Mac that had a zillion
extensions for StuffIt Deluxe, one which decoded MacBinary files.  Why
do these machines always annoy me when I use them?  It may run a 601
under the hood, but the software on top (unfortunately) is still the
same.  :(
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