Re: Apple IIGS, got one free today, need some help, please

[av428@freenet.buffalo.edu (Bruce Randall Baker)]

> >Your mac, if it's running system 7.1 or later, can format and write to
> >ProDOS disks.   the erelevant software (6 disks) to your mac and
> >write to 800K
>
>
> Now this brings up another topic :) IT probably should be in it's own
thread.
>
> 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...

Yeah, I'm kinda tired of reading this silly guy flaming people and posting
wildly.  I can't understand why macs do this.  After all prodos is for 8 bit
as well as gs people.  Often these prodos formatted files are useless on
my //e.  Shrinkit doesn't like them when I try to use 800k disks to open
GEnie Disks of the Month, etc.   I have a prob. because this HD disk drive
will not format in 800k.  So I have tried using my kid's mac.   (I use the
apple!)   But it is not always satisfactory.   Getting things from a pc to
a mac is a pain as well.  Mac's often will not recognize anything.  Mac's are
pretty stupid.  PC's and apples are not as stupid as that.  PC's usually dis-
card the forks and read the good stuff.