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Re: mac to Apple II



>I am trying to pass a text file from my mac to a friends GS. I save the
>file as text on a prodos disk. When he tries to open it using Appleworks
>4.0 or 3.0, he gets a prompt that there are insufficient resources. Can
>anyone help?

Betcha the file is a forked type $00 file. That's how files end up when
you copy 'em onto ProDOS disks. Once upon a time I wrote a program that
could read the data fork of a forked file and write it to a standard file.
My Apple IIs are about 500 miles away now so don't have it handy.
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Randy Shackelford               temporarily stuck in AOHell
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