Re: Use ProDOS disks in a MAC

[hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe)]

unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret) writes:

>In article <1jb3fnINN3ud@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au> Peter Hinchliffe,
>hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au writes:
>> 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 File System Extension itself, contain resources, and will not copy.
>Straight 

>What are you talking about?  Are you trying to say that they will be 
>(for the most part) unusable on 8 bit Apple IIs, or do you think they
>literally won't copy?  I just copied a few applications to a ProDOS disk, and
>they definitely copied, with all resources intact.. (I opened them up 
>from the floppy with ResEdit)
>--
>unknown@apple.com                         Apple II Forever
>unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu   These opinions are mine, not Apple's.

I think I'd better get out my jumbo sized tube of burn cream after saying this

<:-|

Without being pedantic about it, every time I have tried to copy a file from a 
Mac disk to a ProDOS disk, and it has been a file which has contained a 
resource, I have come up with errors. Even the ProDOS extension itself produced
an error code when I tried to copy it to a ProDOS disk. When I inserted a Mac
disk, the file copied with no problems.

I was putting this problem down to the presence of resources (and the ProDOS 
Extension IS a resource), but too many people now have told me that they have 
successfully copied resource files that my errors must be due to something else.

The next logical thing that springs to mind is that the filenames are not being 
translated properly. Certainly the filename "ProDOS File System" does not sit
happily with ProDOS, but I would expect some sort of dialog either advising me 
that the filename had been translated to a format acceptable to ProDOS, or 
prompting me to supply one, just as I am used to in GS/OS. Instead, all I ever 
get is a rather impolite error code.

Not to let this thing completely out of hand, I'll go back and try again...


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