Re: Reads Prodos disks

["Peter Watson" <paw77@N_O_hotmail_S_P_A_M.com>]

Originally Macs could only read/write ProDOS disks using a utility such as 
Passport (I can't remember whether that was ever more than beta software) or 
Apple File Exchange. (A quick Google showed that AFE was shipping for longer 
than I remembered - it should be part of your OS6!) This later became PC 
Exchange and finally(?) just File Exchange.

The advantage of AFE is that it does internal file translation for some file 
types.

You could also scout the web for Apple's "ProDOS File System" init which 
allowed ProDOS disks to be mounted and read (without any file translation).

Lastly, I think later versions of Apple's disk image utility (DiskCopy?) 
would handle ProDOS disks - I can't remember whether KEGS can handle disks 
in that image format.

You might find the following link about AFE useful, especially the links to 
Apple support pages about it and ProDOS:

http://home.earthlink.net/~gamba2/pc2mac.html

-- 
Peter Watson
-- Write to MSDOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
-- Impossible!  ;-)


<jscooper22@yahoo.com> wrote in message 
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> Hi folks,
>
> Well, I recently decided I wanted to grab all my old Apple II files and
> see if I can get (at least some of them) over to my Powerbook/PC. I
> have a copy of KEGS I've been trying out. Anyway, here's what I have:
>
> An Apple IIGS
> A Mac SE w/ OS 6.0.?
> An Apple II+ (not that it matters, I just think it's cool).
> An WinXP Desktop w/ floppy drive
> A G4 Powerbook (obviously without a floppy drive).
>
> I've scoured the net looking to software utilities in any of the above
> combinations to read files from an Apple II disk and get them onto the
> PC or PB. No luck.  I thought the SE would do it, but it just gives me
> a non-formatted error when insert an A2 disk.
>
> Can someone point me in the right direction?
> Thanks,
>
> Jeff
>