Re: Help with HD for Apple //e

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David Phillips <David_Phillips@nexus.amaq.org.au> wrote:

>I have  a i gig on my IIGS To get around the problem of #@ meg partitions I
>have a couple of 32 meg partitions with the last one being a large HFS
>partition. 
>
>The only problem is that when you wish to use the file you have to copy it
>to one of the 'normal' partitions or to a RAM disk (which I use-1 meg RAM
>card).
>
>This partition being a HFS partition is forgiving of names - you can use Mac
>style names. but you have to change it before transfering to the ProDOS
>partition.

I have a 1GB SCSI hard drive and I run most of my stuff off HFS
partitions.  As long as the stuff is Apple IIGS 16-bit software
rather than IIe software running in emulation mode, you CAN
actually RUN the software while it is still on the HFS partition.
No need to copy it to a ProDOS volume.  Try it.

Naturally, if you have a lot of ProDOS IIe software, that would
be different.  But I only use about one IIe program regularly, so
I find HFS partitions to be very useful.

The programs and files will work on the HFS partition even if
they have HFS style names, of course.  I find this extremely
cool because I can name AWGS word processing documents
mode descriptively when I save them.