Re: Let's Talk on AppleTalk-AppleShare

[cdeschu@nyx10.cs.du.edu (Chris Deschu)]

In article <CrG5qM.FG0@crash.cts.com>,
Randy Shackelford <shack@crash.cts.com> wrote:
>In article <2tmbujINNgcr@usenet.pa.dec.com>,
> <gachot@bonnet.enet.dec.com> wrote:
>>
>>	Yesterday evening I connected my IIGS with a Mac using
>>	AppleTalk. Now I have some questions:
>>
>>	Is it possible to mount on the IIGS the Mac 3"1/2 floppy
>>	like a HD ?. I wanted to do that in order to have the
>>	1.4mg possibility from the GS.
>
>Won't work. If you try it you get a message saying items on floppy disks
>cannot be shared.
>--
>Randy Shackelford                                "That's right, keep dancing
>shack@crash.cts.com                               on the minefield"
>                                                                  -Al Bundy

There's no reason you can't make a shared folder on your mac's HD,
and use it as an intermediate point between the GS and the 1.44 drive.
Copy stuff using the GS to the shared folder, and then use the mac to
put it on the 1.44. The other way, use the mac to copy the data from
the 1.44 to the shared folder, and then retrieve it with the GS.
BTW, if you get the ProDOS Filesystem init from the LC's //e card
software, you can even format 1.44MB ProDOS disks using the mac.
You might as well steal the //e beep, too, it's cool. :)
	I have the opposite problem. I have a 1.44mb drive on my GS,
but my file server is a mac plus, which has no 1.44mb drive. So, if
I want to access 1.44mb mac disks for the plus, I have to use the 
GS and system 6 to copy the data to the mac's hard drive over
appleshare. Works great.

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