Re: Sun to Mac to //c and back

[nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates)]

In article <507993$2qv@Germany.EU.net>,
Joerg Heitkoetter <jh@Germany.EU.net> wrote:
>Then I start Fetch on my Mac and transfer the files to a ProDOS 720K
>disk; great I think and move the disk over to the //c and voila
>the disk is readable; but--the files have type $00 not SYS and TXT
>as expected; ok I thought, let's bload the files and bsave them with the
>appropriate type; but this doesn't seem to work; it's
>always WRONG FILE TYPE (load, bload, run, exec, whatever);

   Shoulda noticed this before; the problem (as email conversations
seems to have turned out) comes down to 3 letters: M-A-C. Idiot box
****ing insisits on adding resource forks to files, making them
unreadable under ProDOS 8.

   I am > < (fingers about 1/8" apart) close to actually recommending
that people wishing to download stuff to Apple IIs AVOID Macintoshes
completely. In the FAQ. This is because of their BONEHEADED and
UNNECESSARY inisistence on adding resource forks.

   When something appears to do what you want, but prevents you from
actually doing it, that is worse than not supporting it directly.  If
it's going to trip up far more people than will benefit, I'm going to
recommend against such things.

Nathan Mates
Maintainer, c.s.a2 FAQ
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