Re: problem transferring AOL/iMac text files to Apple II

[Rich Hare <rhare@mich.com>]

Are, perchance, any of the files too LARGE for the Apple IIe?


Obsbedia2 wrote:
> 
> I didn't have any problem converting Apple II generated text files to the Mac
> and getting them to be read on the Mac, but going the other way has developed
> problems.
> 
> I went to a University library and ran a computer search on some educational
> tests.  The librarian told me that I could email the results to myself.  Great,
> I said.  Then I can get them on a real computer, my Apple IIe.
> 
> Well, they showed up in my email, so I formatted a floppy for ProDOS, dragged
> the mail icons (which had been saved as text files) over the ProTYPE (version
> 1.1) icon to strip away the resource fork, and then dragged the icons on to the
> floppy's icon.  I transferred the files from the 1.4MB diskette to a ProDOS
> formatted 800K diskette on the Mac at school.  When I tried importing the files
> via AppleWorks on the IIe, I can only read 8 out of the 25 or so files.
> 
> I thought that a text file was a text file.  I could accept the problem if none
> of the files could be read, but why can some be read?  Of those that can't be
> read, some are larger and some are smaller than the files that are accessible.
> 
> Jay Edwards