Re: Make bootable IIgs disks on a Mac?

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

"Barry Allen" <TheFlash@fast.net> wrote in message
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> Actually William, you do. At least you do need it for MS DOS files. I just
> performed an experiment with the IIsi:
>
> With PC Exchange enabled, when you put in a DOS formatted disk, it mounts
> it and gives it a little "PC" icon. With PC Exchange disabled, you plop a
> DOS formatted disk in the drive and it asks if you want to initialize it
> and DOS format is *not* an option. Only ProDOS and HFS. So PC Exchange
*has
> to be present* to recognize, mount, format and work with DOS formatted
> floppies.

What about ProDOS diskettes?  Does it give the little II icon on the
diskettes
like the MS on the MS_DOS diskettes?  I will have to experiment some more
on it.  All I know is that the System 7.1 you download from Apple does not
have PC Exchange stuff.

> ProDOS has a translator in the extensions folder so we know why that
works,
> but I have the "Foreign File Access" extension disabled (just guessing
that
> might be the translator for DOS among other things) and PC Exchange works
> just fine, and there is no stand-alone MS DOS file system translator, so
PC
> Exchange must do it all.

I didn't see one either so I had assumed it was Foreign File Access too.

> Now that I think about it "Foreign File Access" must have to do with older
> CD ROM formats?
>
> Barry Allen

Joliet file system???? I wonder why you need the PC Exchange
control panel.  It only list the ability to translate MS-DOS text
files to Simpletext files.  No mention of the ability to read
MS-DOS disk.

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