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From: bchurch@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Bob Church)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: a2fx/hfslink
Message-ID: <2155@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU>
Date: 16 Oct 90 18:44:24 GMT
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Organization: Ohio University CS Dept., Athens
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In article <1591@madnix.UUCP> jason@madnix.UUCP (Jason Blochowiak) writes:
>jm7e+@andrew.cmu.edu (Jeremy G. Mereness) writes:
> [Some other stuff deleted]
>>For that matter, are there any plans in the works to enable these
>>programs to WRITE Mac files? I would like some two-way capabilities!
>
>	Although it'd be kinda neat, why bother? Anyone who has a Mac has
>Apple File Exchange for it, and can therefore read ProDOS disks. So, the
>folks with Macs can read our disks

Well, that depends on how you look at it. It's technically possible and
most Apple // users would even consider it easy. Try explaining it to
someone who has never done anything but point and click an a Mac and
you start running into problems. I've known several who assumed the file
was bad when they couldn't run it by clicking on it.
With the GS point and click capacity there could also be a large number
of GS owners who don't know about xfering and importing ascii files.