Re: 5.25 on a Macwhatever

[kreme@nyx.cs.du.edu (Tzan-Tzu: Zen Master of the Origami Fighting Fish)]

gachenb@eis.calstate.edu (Greg R. Achenbach) writes:

><KCR103@psuvm.psu.edu> writes:
>> I had heard someone mention that a 5.25 drive could be hooked to a Mac and
>> ProDOS files could be moved using the Apple File Exchange.  Well, we tried it
>> with no luck so if someone could explain how this was done with some detail
>> maybe we could get it to work. BTW we tried an SE, SE/30, IIsi, and Centris610
>> with no luck.
>> 
>> Ken

>As far as I know, the only Mac that will take a 5.25 is the LC (I,II,III)
>with the Apple II card thingey.  There is an easier way.  Just get your
>files from the 5.25 disk to a 3.5, THEN use Apple File Exchange.  Keep in
>mind that the only file easily transferable (at least 8 bit) are text
>files.  AppleWorks files I hear can be directly read by the latest
>MS-Works, however.--

That's because MS-Works is really Beagle Works, and since Beagle did an
awful lot of the work on AW 3.0, it makes sense they would support what is,
for the most part, their own file structures.

Or is that Word Perfect Works?  Hmm... I think it's WP works, so I would trust
it to read in AW files much better than MS-Works.

Sorry for my confusion... been awake FAR too long!


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