Re: AFE for IIGS ?

[ag471@yfn.ysu.edu (Eric S. Ford)]

In a previous article, lorend@pro-scat.cts.com (Loren Damewood) says:

>In <1993Sep29.050413.20442@jupiter.sun.csd.unb.ca>
>calboyd@atlas.cs.upei.ca (Larry Boyd) writes:
>
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>>         As a novice IIGS user I would like to know if there is 
>>     a program comparable to AFE for the IIGS? 
>>
>>
>>         Please E-Mail replies:
>>
>>                calboyd@atlas.cs.upei.ca
>>
>>                Many thanks.
>>
>>
>>
>
>
>If you are referring to Apple File Exchange, the IIgs does it one better:
>you just put the disk in the drive and it reads it. The HFS.FST reads Mac
>disks, but there are several others for Pascal, DOS 3.3, and MS-DOS, which
>are read-only. (The MS-DOS one requires a superdrive and controller card)

However, there don't seem to be GS counterparts to the AFE format interpreters
(ie. moving WordPerfect files over to MS Word, etc.).  This could be a useful
capability for those of us forced to use other systems at work or other 
locations.


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Eric S. Ford    ag471@yfn.ysu.edu