Re: help w/ mac to gs transfer

["Scott M. Blackman" <blackmsm@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu>]

I'm sure I won't be the only one to correct you.  Since DiskCopy is a "disk
image" format, it can store ProDOS disks as well as Macintosh disks.  The
method Will Baguhn gives should work just fine (just make sure to use 800K
disks!).  A few years ago, there was even a program that someone (Jawaid
Bazyar?) wrote to extract DiskCopy images on a II (gs?).

Scott Blackman
blackmsm@ctrvax.vanderbilt.edu


Jack Countryman wrote:
> Will Baguhn wrote:
 [snip]
> > I believe that there are macintosh format IIgs System Software disk images
> > on the various Apple sites (ftp.apple.com, ftp.support.apple.com,
> > ftp.info.apple.com, etc).  I believe that if you download the images in
> > macintosh format, extract them with Diskcopy(?), etc.. then stick them
> > into a IIgs, you'll be fine. (they're images of ProDOS disks).
> > --
> >                                       --- Rev. SPQR (wbaguhn@nyx.net)

> For this to work, I think he would need to put the extracted files onto
> GS.OS formatted disks.  That means he needs to format disks on the IIGS
> first to use on the mac for the extracted files, or have PCExchange or
> the IIE card software init on the mac to let him format/see IIGS
> formatted disks there.  Otherwise, I think he ends up with HFS formatted
> disks with GS.OS files on them....which will not work on the IIGS.