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Re: formatting from Appleworks
cb408@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jason Reames) writes:
>I'm helping a fellow teacher transfer his AW wp documents to Microsoft
>Works, using Apple File Exchange. When I use a disk with aw files on which
>was formatted with AppleWorks( v2.0 and 3.0), Apple File Exchange will not recognize the
>disk and asks if I wish to format it. Yet if I use a disk formatted either with
>the GS System Disk or Copy2+ there are no problems.
>Does AppleWorks format in a unigue way?
There really shouldn't be any difference in the way in which disks are formatted
between the AppleWorks does it and the way any other ProDOS-based program does
it. The only thing I can think of is that AppleWorks is formatting at a 4:1
interleave and AFE may be having trouble reading the disks because of this.
I have certainly had trouble reading ProDOS disks in an Apple UniDisk 3.5 which
have been formatted with a 2:1 interleave in an Apple 3.5 disk on a IIgs, and I
have friends with the same experience. If I am preparing a disk for someone who
I know uses a 3.5 UniDisk I make sure the disk has a 4:1 interleave.
It might be, and I certainly stand to be corrected here, that Copy II Plus
formats with a 2:1 interleave, and that's why AFE has no trouble with those
disks. Certainly, GS/OS formats at 2:1 unless told otherwise.
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