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

["william strutts" <wrstrutts1@nospam.home.com>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> 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...

True. But I can't go directly from the PC world via a network to
the IIgs world since I don't have a cheap ethernet solution for the
Apple IIgs.  The PC to Mac connection is pure hell as file types
get messed up even with *known* Mac types. I don't have the
problem so much when I move them from the PC to the Mac
using TransMac and copy to a Mac disk. The real problem I have
is copying larger files on a CD-R volume to the Mac world since
my burning software doesn't support a Mac formatted CD-R.
I can only use Joilet and/or ISO 9660 which for some reason
messes up the file types and/or resource forks.  I have the Joilet
extension loaded and it helps with the resource forks but the
file types still get messed up a lot.

> On a PC, a file has whatever type _you_ say it has, whenever you
> say it.
>
Not really true. It will try to interpret the file using the format you
specify but if it is not really in that format, it won't read it. You can't
say that a Lotus123 file is an Excel file and get away with it. In
Windows, you can overide a file type in the Open command by
showing all files but it is not guaranteed to open the file.
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