Re: Moving files from ProDos to Dos

["Mark Provence" <planetmeister@planetmeister.net>]

I may have missed something, but as I have read the question, it is how can
I move ProDOS to DOS and also vice-versa.  GS or otherwise, I have found
that Copy][+ was the simplest and easiest way to move files from one format
to another.

Mark Provence

"olcott" <olcott@qwest.net> wrote in message
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> Thank you very much for your considerate helpfulness.
> I am a professional computer programmer, yet brand
> new to Macs, and Apples. I think that I got the hardware
> requirements down pretty well. I am yet nearly clueless
> about the software requirements. It seems that all of
> the software that I need ultimately depends upon
> software that I do not yet have... The missing piece
> is (eventually) coming in the mail, Stuffit Expander.
>
> With this I can get software off the net to run on
> my Macs. Then I can get stuff from the Macs to the
> Apple II's... Its this last step where I have the most
> gaps. For example... I need to get a copy of ProTYPE
> to run (no one ever says where this is to run, on a Mac
> or on the IIGS), to get this to run on the IIGS, I must
> already have a copy on the IIGS, otherwise the Mac
> turns it into a filetype that will not run.
>
> Tom Zuchowski wrote:
>
> > If I understand you correctly, you are downloading DOS 3.3 files from
the
> > Internet on a PC and using a Mac to transfer them to ProDOS disks for
use on
> > a GS?
> >
> > If the files are DOS 3.3 disk compressions made with ShrinkIt (end in
SDK or
> > BXY,) then the ProDOS ShrinkIt program can uncompress them to DOS 3.3
disks
> > once again, and you will need to download a self-extracting copy of
8-bit
> > ShrinkIt (not GS-ShrinkIt) if you don't have one. If they are DSK files,
> > then you will need the ProDOS program DSK2FILE to convert the DSK to a
real
> > floppy disk. In both of these cases, you are dealing with files that are
> > whole-disk images of the original DOS 3.3 floppies.
> >
> > I am not aware of any DOS 3.3 files available on the Internet in any
other
> > form than the two above.
> >
> > Just so you know, DOS 3.3 only recognizes 5.25 disk drives. If you want
to
> > run DOS 3.3 programs, you need such a drive on your Apple II.
> >
> > Please forgive me if I stated obvious things you already know. I just
want
> > to be sure you know the important details.
> >
> > Tom Zuchowski
> >
> > "olcott" <olcott@qwest.net> wrote in message
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> > > Is there a version of ProDos that can "see" Dos 3.3 files?
> > > I need to move files from the net on a PC through a Mac
> > > to an Apple IIGS, and finally get them to Apple Dos 3.3,
> > > for use on an Apple IIe, Apple II+ and an Apple II.
> > >
> > >
>