Re: Zip as Transport from PC to IIgs

[jmholmes@swbell.net (John)]

One of several things that I like about MacOpener is that it transparently 
incorporates itself into Win 95/98 which hasn't been so with some of the other 
programs that I have played around with (none of which worked well if at all 
running under Windows rather than MSDos only.)  Another thing about it is that 
you can customize it so that it will put the correct filetype in there for you 
(you can specify what it uses).  DEFINATELY was worth the $59 to be able to do 
all of this in one OS rather than switching between Win/DOS/Linux etc...


In article <388A2EA6.C33A1301@cyberhighway.net>, Frank Carney 
<frankc@cyberhighway.net> wrote:
>John wrote:
>
>> Ya know, I inadvertantly "discovered" something last night on a plane trip
>> home while reading a copy of PC World Magazine.  DataViz sells a product
>> called MacOpener 2000 for machines running Windows that actually allows you
> to
>> use all HFS formats, except for 400K/800K floppies, on your PC while running
>> Windows.  This goes not only for reading the media but also writing and
>> formatting as well.  Just for giggles I put a zip disk in my Parallel Port
> Zip
>> drive on my PC and formatted it HFS and then went down to CompUSA with some
>> money burning a hole in my pocket and bought a SCSI zip 250 drive.  Lo and
>> behold the disk I formatted on my PC (and subsequently copied some of the
> //gs
>> software I downloaded to) actually worked on the //gs like a charm!
>>
>> NOW, all I gotta do is figure out how to get Shrinkit on my //gs and I think
> I
>> am in business!  And ideas?  I've got the file downloaded as a "bin" type,
> but
>> not sure what to do with it now.
>
>Just one more thing about HFS tools.  When you copy files to the HFS volume
> they
>automagically converted to the native format.  This works well for Mac files.
>For IIGS files I do not know.
>