Re: Help! Filetype $00 problems . . .

[Randy Shackelford <shack@onyx.southwind.net>]

Supertimer <supertimer@aol.com> wrote:

:>     You mentioned a program named "PC Exchange" which results in resource
:>forks being tacked on. Is this the standard Mac<-->PC file transfer utility?

: It comes on the Mac as a control panel.  Similar to MUG! on the IIGS but
: where MUG! is a desk accessory for the IIGS that lets you read and
: write MS-DOS floppies, Zip disks, and hard drives (removable and fixed),
: PC Exchange lets the Mac read and write ProDOS and MS-DOS floppies,
: Zip disks, and hard drives.

Well to be perfectly accurate, you're only guaranteed access to ProDOS 
floppies with it. It won't support SCSI devices which don't have a compatible
driver in the driver partition while it will provide one for DOS volumes on
devices without drivers. I found this out back when Nathan was still
polluting this group. Unfortunately he was right about that one.
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