Re: Mac fork stipper program MIA (needed for A2s)

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spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector) wrote:
>In article themaples@worldnet.att.net (Bruce Maples) writes...
>>>    The PC can also read 1.44 MB (High Density) HFS and ProDOS disks.
>>
>>How?  I can understand the HD HFS, using MacSee or something similar.
>>But how the ProDOS?
>
>    By using ProCOPY from Hugh McKay (actually he lives in the same
>city I do, but I've never met or spoken to him). It's a small MS-DOS
>program that does read-only access to 1.44 MB ProDOS (MFM) diskettes.
>Besides being only a one way transfer, it cannot handle GS/OS forked
>files (not generally a problem though). It's also a fairly basic
>program, it only seems to let you "pull" one file at a time (using a
>little menu) and you have to give the destination file a new name.

The combination of ProCOPY and the MS-DOS FST make for excellent
GS to PC and back connectivity.  Save on the GS to ProDOS and read
on the PC with ProCOPY.  Save on the PC to MS-DOS and read on the
GS with the MS-DOS FST.

-Scott G.