Re: IIGS MS-DOS FST Problem Solved

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

Bill, as I keep telling people, small amounts of cash in the mail are as
safe as any other method I know. To my knowledge, no shareware fee to me or
from me to others has ever gone astray.

When you decide to get around to it, email me for a street address as the PO
Box address that is in the documentation is no longer valid.
-- 
Peter Watson
-- Write to MSDOS disks on the Apple IIgs?
-- Impossible!  ;-)


"Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net> wrote in message
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> "Dean Shutt" <junk@punaka.com> wrote in message
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> : Long file names are indeed the problem.  Even one on the disk
> confuses
> : the FST and the disk can not be read.  Note this is NOT a
> problem with
> : MS DOS Copy under Prodos on the IIe.  This is also noted in the
> : instructions for MUG, thanks Bill ror sending it.
>
> No problem Dean. I figure I've been through most
> of the same things everyone else has over the past
> year and a half, so I have some things at the ready.
> One thing you should consider, too, is one superdrive,
> and one Apple 800K drive. I used to have both superdrives,
> and although most of the time all was well, having one of
> each alleviates some other problems, which I can't put my
> finger on at the moment, but I like to have one of each
> dependable at hand. Oh, it's when you want to copy from
> an MS-DOS disk to an 800K disk. When the 800K is in a
> superdrive, it doesn't write dependably all the time.
> This way it does.  8O)  Could be another ROM03 bug, but
> I have had one of each since a very important 800K disk
> died on me. You can try 2 superdrives if you like, it's
> totally up to you.
>
> Peter, if you are reading this, I will be sending your
> fee, just not sure when. Sure wish you had a PayPal acct.
>
> Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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