Re: Internet files from Mac to Apple?

[oaaland@aol.com (O Aaland)]

>In article <353957C7.75D@ix.netcom.com>,
>Bob and Linda Barrett  <blbarret@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>>I need help. I know how to get disk images of Apple II software from the
>>internet to my PowerMac, but have NO idea how to get them onto disks
>>that will run in the GS's and IIe's I have at school.  I know how to
>>format ProDos disks on the Mac, but after that, I'm lost.Straight across
>>drag-and drop doesn't work.  I did read the Apple II FAQ (thanks
>>Nathan), and visited Emulation.net but I admit it confused me more than
>>enlightened me.
>
>   First off, legitimate Apple II software on the net has file
>extensions of .SHK, .BXY or .BSQ, with a few rare exceptions like the
>GSHK 1.1 .SEA. Other extensions such as .dsk are used by pirates and
>will get *zero* help in unpacking them from the official csa2 FAQ
>simply because they're illegally copied. 
>
>   The CSA2 Faq walks you thru getting Binscii (for .BSQ files) and
>Shrinkit (for .shk/.bxy) up and running, or you can get Steve
>Cavanaugh's $3 modem starter disk (address in faq section 10.2) with
>those programs already downloaded to your Apple II. With a Mac, the
>current plan is to have the 'PC Exchange' control panel (though I've
>heard that to use that under OS8, you have to turn off filesharing,
>which is yet another quirk from the "user friendly" UI design
>deities), and use a program called 'Protype' to undo the mucking with
>files that the OS seems to insist on. [Messing with files w/o
>permission making them unreadable elsewlere. In the real world, that'd
>be called a virus, but to the "Don't think unless we tell you to" Mac
>designers, they don't seem to care]. Then, from a real Apple II,
>unpack the .shk files.
>
>   It is not hard to get things to an Apple II, except that the
>amazing variety of ways you can do so make a definitive list of steps
>to take almost impossible. People email me asking how to navigate the
>menuing systems on their unix shell accounts, as if that's in any way
>standardized, they also expect that without mentioning what telcomm
>apps are being used that I can psychicly list off the menu/keystrokes
>for them, etc. My answer is the follow the guidelines in the FAQ, read
>the fine manual & documentation, or ask their local sysadmin who knows
>the system. "Standards"-- gotta love all of them :)
>
>Nathan Mates



     You just have to love Nathan don't you. We see a request from someone 
who read the FAQs and still has problems and we get a response that is more
flaming Macintosh than any real assistance, unless to tell someone to read 
the FAQs they already said they did not understand is going to help. As long 
as you don't take him too seriously he really can be entertaining.

Owen