Re: IIgs and Mac

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <32410B84.22C0@monmouth.com>,
Daniel Webster  <dwebster@monmouth.com> wrote:
>IS there a GS program that will allow the decoding of those Macintosh
>disk images?

   I think GS+ Magazine made a program to do so; drop by
http://www.hypermall.com/ego/ to see if they have copies still around.

>Also, There are several Mac programs that allow the images to be mounted
>as disks on the desktop.  I figure that this would be tougher on a GS,
>having each volume assigned to a slot and all.  

   GS/OS doesn't care about slot/drive assignments. What it does care
about is that device drivers can't subcontract out to others. Thus,
the only way to get a mounted disk 'image' is to make a ramdisk anc
copy all the contents to the ramdisk. Coincidentally, that's one of
the things my Swatdisk package lets you do quite well: create ramdisks
on the fly of any size, then dump them to reclaim the RAM. Take a look
at http://www.visi.com/~nathan/a2/njmgssoft.html for more info.

Nathan Mates

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