Re: WOOHOO! My IIgs is now networked to my W2K PC!!!!

[Greg Buchner <nobody@mn.rr.com>]

In article <20011020204256.16945.00000466@mb-cg.aol.com>,
 mjmahon@aol.com (Michael J. Mahon) wrote:

> william strutts wrote:
> 
> >That way I can download files for the Mac directly to a Mac
> >volume and/or a IIgs file to the Mac bypassing the file translation
> >horrors of the PC to Mac world.
> 
> I find very few problems going from the PC world to the Apple II
> world--it's the Mac world that pastes "resources" onto everything
> it sees...

I found no problems going from the Mac world to the Apple II world.
Of course I used the Mac as a file server.  Made things real easy.
Even used the Mac as a backup device...just used Salvation Bakkup to 
write all of my files to one file over localtalk.

> On a PC, a file has whatever type _you_ say it has, whenever you
> say it.

Same thing on a Mac...as long as you have the right software.  With the 
right software, you can control click on a file that has a .xxx 
extension select Fix Type/Creator and it's fixed.  Personally, having 
dealt with people who have changed just the 'filetype' under MS-DOS and 
expected the file to be converted to the new type, I much prefer the Mac 
method.

Greg B.
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