Re: ProDOS to Apple Pascal file transfer

["John B. Matthews" <nospam@nospam.invalid>]

In article 
<d4c65254-ab13-4e2b-9b11-0e3003b47f3c@g30g2000yqc.googlegroups.com>,
 Steven Nelson <steven-nelson@uiowa.edu> wrote:

> On Apr 18, 9:13 am, "John B. Matthews" <nos...@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> > In article
> > <1502230f-6a61-4f08-997e-9237cfe0f...@i25g2000yqm.googlegroups.com>,
> >  Steven Nelson <steven-nel...@uiowa.edu> wrote:
> >
> > > I downloaded some dsk images of Pascal disks from the internet.  I
> > > would like to copy these .dsk files to 3.5" Pascal disks.  I thought I
> > > could do this using Chameleon, but it doesn't work.  Error msg is
> > > something like 'Unsupported file' or somesuch.  I can't think of any
> > > other method except for perhaps writing the .dsk file to a real 5.25
> > > disk and reading that disk back into a pascal volume image.  There
> > > must be an easier way, I hope.
> >
> > > How can I transfer a file from ProDOS to an Apple Pascal disk?
> >
> > On the Apple II side, real or emulated, Apple System Utilities 3.1 can
> > copy Pascal files between 5.25 and 3.5" media. In emulation, CiderPress
> > and AppleCommander are popular choices:
> >
> > <http://ciderpress.sourceforge.net/>
> > <http://applecommander.sourceforge.net/>
> 
> Thanks for suggestion.  System Utilities 3.1 won't copy the files
> either.  'Incompatible file type'.  I have checked on the pdos disk
> that the files are 'standard' storage type and there are no resource
> forks, so that is not the problem.  I have set the file type to 'bin'
> using Bill Tudors 'MoreInfo' finder extension.  I have tried 'txt' too
> but that doesn't work either.  The help menu on SysUtils mentions
> copying files between pdos and dos33, nothing about pdos and pascal.

I recently used System Utilities 3.1 to copy formatter.code from a 5.25" 
disk image to my 3.5" work disk.

> Since my Apple][ peripherals are Macintosh OSX and Macintosh OS9 I
> don't think ciderpress will help (Windows only?) and I am unfamiliar
> with applecommander (aren't you the author?).  I need to get this onto
> a real Pascal disk and I don't know if OS9 can tolerate a pascal
> disk.  OSX is out for me as far as floppies.    Will AppleCommander
> help?  I don't think any emulator will help me get this onto a real
> disk.

If you can link to the images, I'd be glad to see what AppleCommander 
makes of them. I use it and System Utilities 3.1 frequently to copy 
files from 5.25" disk images to 3.5" disk images.

Years ago, I had a PowerMac 8500 that could read/write the same 800K 
3.5" disks used by my IIgs. I'd have to defer to the hardy souls here on 
how to do it today.

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