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From: unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu (The Unknown User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Exchanging between different computers
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Date: 30 Aug 90 09:04:08 GMT
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In response to Larry Virden:
<The formats that I have in mind are Sun SPARCstation 1 tar 3.5"
<(or is that Unix tar or cpio format?) as well as MS-DOS format.  The goal
<ultimately would be to have a utility which would look at a floppy and
<tell you :
>This is CP/M, MS/DOS, OS/2, Unix, Mac 400, Mac 800, Mac 1.4, or whatever,
>and THEN let you extract info from it.
<
>Extending it to write some or all of these would be great as well.
<
>Then a TRUE file exchange program would be in place.  If the program was
<designed to easily extend, and the format for the modules and data files
>for user provided extensions could be provided, then folks with Atari,
<Amiga, etc. could also write modules and we could get graphics, sounds,
<etc. from ALL of those guys!  Boy, wouldnt THAT be neat?
        It seems to me that what you're describing is virtually exactly 
what the idea of FSTs is supposed to give us!
        If Apple would just release the format of FSTs or release some
more, then we wouldn't need these special programs like "Apple II File
Exchange".

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