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Re: Applle iie<->Apple iigs<->Mac Se<->eMac
- Subject: Re: Applle iie<->Apple iigs<->Mac Se<->eMac
- From: dempson@actrix.gen.nz (David Empson)
- Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 00:32:10 +1200
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Wolfgang <w@work.com> wrote:
> I had the Se formatting 800k 3.5 floppies in Prodos and exchanging
> software. But now it comes.
> Since I decided to clean up the Se and reinstall everything I wear the
> donkey hat.
> How do I get the Se (running system 7.1 now) to recognize and format
> Prodos? Some how I have deleted an extension or what ever and now I can
> not do it anymore.
Was the SE previously running System 7.5? If so, you were probably using
the ProDOS file system extension, which allows you to use ProDOS disks
directly in Finder (and other Mac applications).
With earlier versions of the Mac system software, you have to use a
dedicated application to copy files to/from ProDOS disks: Apple File
Exchange. It should be included in a full install of System 7.1.
Apple File Exchange gives you two side by side file selection lists with
buttons in the middle to copy files between different file systems (it
also supports MS-DOS/FAT16 in System 7.0 and 7.1). It looks quite
similar to Font/DA Mover (from System 7.0 and earlier).
Early versions of AFE are probably missing support for late developments
in ProDOS, such as resource forks (from IIgs System 5.0) and might not
translate auxiliary types correctly. I expect these features were well
established by the time System 7.1 was released, so its copy of AFE
should be handling them, but it is possible Apple didn't quite catch up.
According to MacTracker, System 7.1 was released in May 1991, but it
lists the same date for System 7.0 so one of them must be wrong. A
little further research says that the 7.0 date is correct. It looks like
7.1 came out around 1992, and was replaced by 7.5 in 1994 (soon after
the first PowerMac models).
I don't remember exactly when IIgs System 5.0 and 6.0 were released.
Judging from the technical notes I have handy, System 6.0 was released
by June 1992, so it was about the same time as Mac System 7.1, or a
littler earlier.
--
David Empson
dempson@actrix.gen.nz