Re: AppleTalk

["Michael Pender" <mpender@hotmail.com>]

Simon Williams <ludditetech@mac.com> wrote in message
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> David Wilson <david@uow.edu.au> wrote in message
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> > >Is there a convenient way to store DSK files on the second computer
(Mac or
> > >PC) and use these as though they were local floppies?
>
> There is a utility called Mountimager, or Imagemounter that allows you
> to mount images on the Mac desktop (not sure if it works above system
> 7.5). Haven't tried it on Appleshare though.
>
> An _inconvenient_ method might be to format a drive full of 140K and
> 800K partitions with sharing enabled and treat them as virtual
> floppies... an interesting experiment at least.

Do you mean to partition the drive on the Mac, or on the IIgs?

BTW I still don't see why developing a TCP/IP stack for the II is so
difficult.  There has supposedly been SLIP drivers for the IIgs available
since 1996.

- Mike