Re: PC to Mac IIcx to IIgs???

[dalloff@freenet.columbus.oh.us (Dave Althoff)]

Jason Whorton (jason@microxl.com) wrote:
: Hello.  Can files be downloaded on a PC and put on a 1.44 floppy disk, then
: read from the Mac IIcx and put into a file format that the IIgs or IIe can
: use?  I bought a IIcx yesterday and read that it can read MS-DOS files.
: Also, I have seen Mac to IIgs transfers being mentioned here, but as I never
: had a Mac, I always skipped them.  I don't know if a IIcx is modern enough
: for whatever it has to have to be able to transfer files.  If anyone has any
: info on this (Supetimer, Rubywand, your name here) then please post it or
: e-mail me.  I would appreciate it.  It would give me a reason to dust off
: the IIgs and/or IIe and use it/them again.

Yes.  I do it all the time and in both directions.  Though I usually skip
a step, as at work my IIgs is connected via AppleTalk (or LocalTalk, or
Farralon PhoneNet, or whatever you want to call it) to a Mac IIcx running
System 7 with file sharing enabled.  I stick the MS-DOG disk into the Mac
and copy the files to the IIcx hard drive.  Then I can access that drive
on the IIgs.  It's really slick.

Without the AppleTalk connection, you can store the files on an 800k
floppy formatted for either HFS or ProDOS.  GS/OS 6.0.1 can (with the HFS
FST installed) read and write HFS (Macintosh) disks; MacOS can read and
write ProDOS disks.

So assuming you have all the system software, you're in business!

--Dave Althoff, ][.

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