Re: Use ProDOS disks in a MAC

[rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins)]

In article <1jb3fnINN3ud@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au>, hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe) writes:
> joseph@synapse.bms.com (Seymour Joseph) writes:
>>Most of us are familiar with GS System 6.0 and is ability to directly
>>mount diskettes with foriegn file systems directly on the GS desktop.
>>You just insert a Mac or DOS 3.3 (apple II) disk and the GS recognizes
>>it and mounts it pretty much like any other disk.
> 
> The ProDOS File System Extension is truly a clever piece of work: it allows
> you to manipulate files and folders on ProDOS disks from the System 7 Finder,
> just as if it was a Macintosh disk. However, it is NOT a File System Translator
> like the HFS FST in GS/OS. It simply allows an LC user to perform ProDOS Disk 
> and File operations in the Finder without having to dive back into the IIe
> emulation. 
> 
> Don't try to use it to copy Mac files to a ProDOS disk, though. Most of the
> files you'll want to copy, such as TrueType fonts, etc, and, indeed, the ProDOS

	The other problem I've seen with it is that it doesn't coexist with 
any sort of Dos Mounter/access PC type of program, so you have to make a 
decision what disks you will be accessing.

	On another note, what is the best way to download // programs from 
a mac to a Apple //?

Later.......

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