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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: amax
Message-ID: <710@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 18 Nov 89 15:15:16 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <3651@orion.cf.uci.edu> echarne@orion.oac.uci.edu (Eli B. Charne)
writes:

>       I bought amax a while ago, but just tried my first Mac-Amiga
> transfer this weekend, and couldn't get it to work.
>
>       At school we have a Mac hooked up to ethernet, so I downloaded some
> .zoo files (bkdc entries :) to the Mac.  But when I tried to use
> Amax's file-transfer program, it wouldn't recognize the existence of
> the .zoo files
>
>
>                             Anyone ever try this?

     (Quoting the gum commercial) I do, I do! :-)  And I get exactly the
same problem.  I have never gotten the Mac's somewhat brain-dead file
requester to recognize anything other than folders (i.e. directories)
on any disk.  Files do not exist as far as it's concerned.

     I've written a letter to ReadySoft mentioning the problem, and
criticizing the ugliness of the file transfer process in general. Since
I've also included some money and an order for their extension cable,
maybe they'll be nice enough to answer.  A-Max really is a well-built
product except for the file transfer programs, and the Mac's operating
system itself (which isn't their fault).

     If anyone is interested, I can post whatever results I get.

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
"Using an IBM PC is like juggling straight razors.
 Using a Mac is like shaving with a bowling pin."
        -- Ted Nelson, Computer Lib