Re: cool 7.5 features

[chngai@cs.cuhk.hk (Ngai Chi Ho)]

Walker A1 wrote:
:~) > System 7.5 for the Mac will include Mac/PC Exchange 2.0, a cdev
:~) > that enables the Mac's SuperDrive to handle DOS or ProDOS disks.
:~) > Apple File Exchange is history...no longer needed.

:~) Unfortunately, Macintosh PC Exchange conflicts with AutoDoubler, so I've
:~) disabled it on my system.  Besides which, if you only occasionally need to
:~) read ProDOS disks on a Mac, why have the program sitting around in memory
:~) constantly?  AFE is still more convenient for me.  (Of course, AppleTalk
:~) is even more convenient ;)

Another point: Even for a text file, UNIX uses LF for the end of line,
Apple (both II and Mac) uses CR, while MS-DOS uses CR _and_ LF. (so
stupid!)  When I open an MS-DOS text file using TeachText, LF's show up
as squares.  But if I use AFE to convert the file, I can get rid of the
stupid 2-byte EOL.

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