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

[supertimer@aol.com (Supertimer)]

obsbedia2@aol.com (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.

PC Exchange does not do a very good job writing ProDOS disks.
Sometimes it works.  Sometimes it takes a few tries for the data
to take.  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.  The GS/OS
HFS FST does a much better job reading and writing HFS than
PC Exchange (or DiskCopy, incidentally) does writing ProDOS.