Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!decwrl!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Apple CD-SC running MS-DOS Message-ID: <9008131437.AA24956@apple.com> Date: 13 Aug 90 14:33:41 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 11 >If there's a gateway through to the 8-bit Apple II words to the MS-DOS >world, you can read blocks of the CD using SmartPort calls. Does that >help? I doubt it will help him... he's changed his question again. Anyway, just to clarify what you've said... you're right. That's the way the PCT accesses a HD... through ProDOS, but you can only read a ProDOS formatted CD this way and only using a special utility program supplied with the PCT and you can't read 'single blocks', only files... to move from ProDOS to MS-DOS or Visa Versa.