Re: apple II gs to ms-dos

[cheer@i.hate.spam (Christopher D. Heer)]

In article <32E0FD07.6A65@monmouth.com>, dwebster@monmouth.com says...

>I used to just pop MS-DOS disks into my GS HD drives, but the read only
>DOS FST is not compatable with WIN 95 disks.  Even disks that were
>formatted under DOS 6.22 or earlier, once read by a WIN 95 machine are
>no longer readable by the GS.  Another interesting note, Mac PC exchange
>(the sys 7.5xx version) also has a problem with WIN 95 disks.  It can
>read the files, but the disk lable becomes a fragment of the name of the
>most recently written file.  

I can't begin to imagine why this would be.  It's not as if the disk format 
changed (it didn't).  Could they be barfing because the creator ID in the boot 
record is unrecognised?

Doesn't make sense.  Anyone know what's up with this?
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