Re: Wanted: Unix utility to create Apple IIgs 3.5" disks

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <4tl3bt$km2@srv13s4.cas.org>,
Larry W. Virden <lvirden@cas.org> wrote:
>I have a SPARC at work, and would like to be able to create floppy disks
>here that my son could use at home.

   Not knowing for certain what drives Sparcs had in them, I checked
Sun's WWW pages. At least in the Sparc 4 spec sheets, it mentioned
that the floppy drive was "720K/1.44MB" MS-DOG compatable. Problem is,
that's the wrong type of drive for most GSs. In order to even be able
to read the bits off that disk, you'd need a Superdrive, Bluedisk, or
Floptical off your GS. Translating them into files is the next
problem.

>I remember a few years ago finding a utility for the Mac that would allow
>me to create tar disks and then give them to a friend, who would run a
>special utility on his Mac to read the data.

   I bet that required Macs with 1.44MB capable drives, which is
pretty much all macs after the Mac IIx or so.

>Has anyone written a similar set of tools, for the Unix side at least,
>which would allow either the SPARC to create Apple II disks or an Apple II
>utility to read SPARC disks - or perhaps a pair of utilities that would
>create some intermediate format that both could read?

   Not to my knowledge.

Nathan Mates
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