Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!cunixf.cc.columbia.edu!vw3 From: vw3@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Vernon Williams) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: Exchanging between different computers Message-ID: <1990Aug31.062233.10716@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> Date: 31 Aug 90 06:22:33 GMT References: <6430@darkstar.ucsc.edu> <44419@apple.Apple.COM> Reply-To: vw3@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu (Vernon Williams) Organization: Columbia University Lines: 23 In article <44419@apple.Apple.COM> mattd@Apple.COM (Matt Deatherage) writes: [Stuff about FST's and Apple File Exchange deleted] > >I'd be interested in helping design such a program if someone else was >also interested. >-- [Matt's signature eaten by passing dogcow] Would that I were a programmer! I think this is a great idea! It would certainly make alot of people's lives easier. (or at least mine!) I'm dissapointed that such an item didn't come with the IIGS System Software.I think that it would pacify >>some<< of the people who are very eager to see FST's live up to their potential. And would provide developers with a means to create translators for the interchange of data between the GS and other computer platforms. +-------------------------------------------------------+--------------------+ |Vernon Williams | vw3@cunixf | |Evening Supervisor/Library Assistant +--------------------+ |Thomas J. Watson Library of Business and Economics | 130 Uris Hall |