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

[jonINTERNETrelayCHAT@napaVALLEYnet.CLARInet (Jon Bettencourt)]

> PC Exchange does not do a very good job writing ProDOS disks.

On mine it works very well.

> Sometimes it works.  Sometimes it takes a few tries for the data
> to take. 

On mine it's a maximum of 2.

> Since you have a IIGS, why not write the data to 800k
> HFS disk on the Mac, then use GS/OS with the HFS FST installed
> to copy that data over to ProDOS disk for your IIe. 

Because I'm running GS/OS off a floppy and don't have room for the HFS FST.

> The GS/OS
> HFS FST does a much better job reading and writing HFS than
> PC Exchange (or DiskCopy, incidentally) does writing ProDOS.

On mine DiskCopy never works.

PS: I am _not_ the original poster.

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