Re: HELP! Need to grab IIGS stuff using Macintosh

[nathan@cco.caltech.edu (Nathan Mates)]

In article <lurch-0703952309540001@192.0.2.1>,
Erik Kloeppel <lurch@eskimo.com> wrote:
>In article <3ji9ts$ao5@usenet.ucs.indiana.edu>,
>brianh@copper.ucs.indiana.edu (-sin(1/x)) wrote:
>
>> I'm leaving for SF in two days to visit a friend.  She was recently
>> given a IIGS by her parents (it was free, I guess).  Anyway, I want to
>> grab freeware for her, but I don't have access to a IIGS.  How do I go
>> about this using a Mac?  I'm sorry if this has been covered before, but
>> I only have a little time to do this and I started reading this group
>> today.  Help!

>It's easy.  Download what you want... format some 800K floppies in PRODOS,
>copy files to the floppies.  Take floppies to friend.  Copy files to GS. 
>Receive
>accolades and kisses from friend.

   Ummm, newbies might not catch several critical steps in this:

- Formatting the disks on the GS. 
- Using Mac System 7.5 or Apple File Exchange on the mac end

or
- If he GS has System 6.0 and the HFS installed, then you can format
the disks on the Mac and transfer them from there.

Nathan Mates

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