Re: RFC: downloading info for c.s.a2 FAQ

[jreiter@comet.net (Jordan Reiter)]

In article <4vdb8l$nlq@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:
>In article <4vcrbn$i32@news.vanderbilt.edu>,
>Tilghman Lesher <lesherjt@vuse.vanderbilt.edu> wrote:
>>I article <4vedim$7d4@darla.visi.com>, nathan@visi.com (Nathan Mates) wrote:
>>: stuff to an Apple II disk. Macs running system 7 can write to ProDOS
>>: 3.5" 800K disks.]
>>Macs using PC File Exchange can r/w ProDOS disks.  System 7.1 (distributed
>>with the IIsi and others) does not use PC Exchange native. 
>
>   Tip: look for Apple File Exchange on one of the System 7.1 disks.
>It can read and write ProDOS disks. Apple File Exchange is part of
>System 7.0-7.49 (or whatever the last one before 7.5 was), and thus my
>statement that Macs running system 7 can write to ProDOS disks is
>correct. Macs unfortunately force people into the (wrong) idea that
>if the finder can't do something with a disk, nothing can. 
Actually, Apple File Exchange came out a lot earlier on the Mac and did
_not_ come with system 7.x to my knowledge. I had to copy the program from
my Mac Plus running system 6.0.7 to my Classic II running system 7.1 in
order to use it.  Also, I always had difficulty using this program to
simply copy files onto 3.5" floppies, it always wanted to translate them
directly into ASCII (not very workable for actual programs). My suggestion
is that a copy of PC Exchange be posted for people without System 7.5 (if
possible with Apple's permission) to the /mac directory at ground. If not,
there was another program which recognized only the prodos file system and
was not distributed by apple, but I forget where I found this.
>   I do plan on writing another new section sometime soon on what
>programs/ hardware on other platforms can be used to read/write Apple
>II disks and what Apple II Hardware/Software can read non-Apple II
>disks. In that I'd spell out in more detail how boneheaded Macs can
>be.
As I download almost all my Apple II files on my brother's Power Performa
6200CD with no problems, I see no way a person using the completely Apple
II unfriendly systems of Unix and PC's could complain about Mac's as being
"boneheaded".

Toby Reiter

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