Re: ProDOS to Apple Pascal file transfer

[Steven Nelson <steven-nelson@uiowa.edu>]

Thanks to all who responded.  A special thanks to Dr. John B Matthews
and his AppleCommander program.  I am now using his acmac.app.
Normally I use a commandline interface in the the terminal so the ac
command is welcome, but the mac.app is doing great.  I will give a
brief progress report on what I have learned (well, experienced, if
not learned) to correct a few earlier comments.
I discovered why my pdos to pascal dsk images weren't as expected
using SysUtils.  I downloaded to osx, tranferred to os9 using
appleshare/ethernet, transfered to GS/OS using appleshare/localtalk.
The osx and os9 'show info' (cmd-I) show the files as 140K (143,360
bytes).  However, the GS 'info' shows the files as 143,360 bytes but
disk size ranges from 107k to 133k, not a full 140k.  Probably the
filesize after copying with SysUtils to pascal disk was not a full
140k and thus my sub-volume manager could not handle the files as 140k
volumes.  (I think).  Anyway, I think the files on the GS were
probably incorrect(sparse?) and copying didn't restore them
correctly.  So I now I know to be careful when using GS/OS appleshare
to transfer disk images.  The osx images are fine and I looked at them
all using AppleCommander.  I will wait until I have a CF card set up
as Pascal volume before I transfer more using ADTPro and a 5.25" disk.

  --Steve