Mac reading ProDOS disks (was: Re: Apple IIGS, got one free today, need some help, please)

[gberigan@cse.unl.edu (Greg Berigan)]

tdiaz@coyote.csusm.edu (Tony Diaz) writes:
>Erik Kloeppel (lurch@eskimo.com) wrote:

>>Your mac, if it's running system 7.1 or later, can format and write to
>>ProDOS disks.

Every time I try to insert a ProDOS disk in a Mac running Mac System 7.1
or later it asks me if I want to reformat it or eject.  How do I go
about getting it to read the disks, or do you refer to using Apple File
Exchange?  Is it something extra that I need to install, and is it
available from ftp.apple.com?

>Now this brings up another topic :) IT probably should be in it's own thread.

Well, it is now.

>Is it just me, or does the ProDOS File System translator attach a resource
>fork to everything it touches that does not already contain one? Makes it
>kinda useless... for 8 bit files anyway...

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