Re: CD-Rom for Apple II & IIGS

[taob@r-node.io.org (Brian Tao)]

In article <1993Oct14.224927.10879@msuvx1.memst.edu>, ustai@msuvx1.memst.edu writes...
> 
> If it's a lot, I think we would need P8 partitions or a for the IIe/c to
> read HFS.  Perhaps a utility can be written?  After all, we do have the
> HFS and MS-DOS fst, and also tools to read/write/ format/use MS-DOS
> disks now...  Surely these authors can be persuaded to release their
> codes to help out in this last bastion of the Apple II world or be
> persuaded to write something that read HFS from Prodos-8.  Just read.

    You mean like a2fx or HFSLink?  :)  I've used those two utilities to
transfer files from an HFS disk to ProDOS.  Now with read/write MS-DOS
tools as well, I can turn GS Truetype fonts into Windows 3.1 Truetype
files.  Copy the resource fork of a TT font from and HFS disk to a
binary file, use Resource Spy to extract the 'sfnt' resource as a *.TTF
file, then copy to an MS-DOS disk.

    BTW, I'm having problems reading Macintosh disks on the floptical
using both a2fx and HFSLink.  Both usually crash when transferring the
files to a ProDOS disk.  I don't know if it's the floptical, HD disks or
System 6.01...
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