Re: Need help, 5.25 disks and IIgs

[wbdesnoy@acs1.acs.ucalgary.ca (Byron Desnoyers Winmill)]

Greg J. Buchner (buchner@tcfreenet.org) wrote:
: On 17 Aug 1999, Supertimer wrote:

: added.  This is where the Macintosh utility ProType comes in
: handy.  It will identify certain Apple II files by a file
: extension and set the correct filetype on the Mac.  It also

On several occasions I have encountered problems with ProType interpreting
text files.  In these cases, I pull up ResEdit and change the file type to
TEXT and creator to pdos.  (The problem is that ProType tries to decode
text files, and either takes a long time checking large files or simply
chokes on others.)

Anyway, it is just another useful technique.
Byron.