Re: HELP! Apple II files on a Macintosh...

["Bill Garber" <willy46pa@comcast.net>]

"Michael J. Mahon" <mjmahon@aol.com> wrote in message
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> Jeff Thomas wrote:
>
> >I have a Macintosh with Apple 3.5" Superdrive (1.4Mb), running System
> >7.0.1 from the hard disk. Using "Apple File Exchange" [A.F.E] program, I
>
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>
> >settings? Or System 7 extension to mount the disk drive to support
> >ProDOS and PC disks directly from Finder?
>
> I have a slightly newer OS, version 7.1P2 (for Performa), and it
> has "built in" Apple II and PC disk compatibility, using PC Exchange
> and the ProDOS File System extension.  It is not necessary to run
> any program to copy files between file systems--they just mount
> on the desktop and drag and drop does its thing.
>
> When I copy files from PC disks to ProDOS disks, I usually copy
> them first to a Mac folder, then to the ProDOS disk, and in the
> process they frequently pick up a useless resource fork.  On the
> Apple II I dispose of the resource fork using UNFORKIT--a simple
> Applesoft + M/L program that does block I/O to the directory.
>
> As I was typing this, I realized that I have never tried copying
> directly from the PC floppy to the ProDOS floppy (since it takes
> a couple of swaps on a one-drive system).  Maybe that will avoid
> the creation of forks entirely.  ;-)

One other possibility would be to create a ProDOS partition on
the Mac hard drive, if there is one, and copy files from the PC
floppy to there and then back to a ProDOS floppy. Might alleviate
the danger of acquiring a resource fork as well. Although GS/OS
often forks files too, I think that should work if GS/OS doesn't
play a role in that scenario.

Bill @ GarberStreet Enterprizez };-)
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