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

[spec@vax2.concordia.ca (Mitchell Spector)]

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.

    Works quite well though, I've successfully copied data directly 
off some of my HD ProDOS disks lying around here and onto my PC's
hardrive. The latest version I have is 1.2, written in early 1993.
I can post a copy of it to comp.binaries.apple2 if there's interest
(it's not an Apple II-specific program, but it'd be far closer than
the ad-spam, misdirected questions and silly anti-PC GIFs the group 
has been degraded to seeing lately... ;-).

Mitchell Spector
spec@vax2.concordia.ca