Re: mac to Apple II

[gareth@opus.freenet.vancouver.bc.ca (Gareth Jones)]

Chuck Garrett (chuckg@kingsnet.com) wrote:
: 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?

: -- 
: Chuck Garrett
: Chuckg@kingsnet.com
: Not very much matters, and nothing matters very much

You've got a problem opening a file with a resource fork (everything 
saved by the Mac has a resource fork, even if it shouldn't) with a ProDOS 
8 program that doesn't know from resource forks. Two possibilities: save 
on a Mac-formatted disk (instead of ProDOS) and use HFS.Link or A2FX to 
bring just the data fork onto a ProDOS disk, or use a shareware program 
called "fork.split" to create a data-fork-only file. Actually, there's a 
third possibility: use a GS/OS program to open the file. AppleWorks GS 
wouldn't have a problem with itm for example, so I imagine that Teach or 
ShadowWrite/Hermes wouldn't either.

-Gareth