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From: cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu (Charles William Swiger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Mac to GS and GS to Mac
Message-ID: <IbitzwW00WCZE74kYb@andrew.cmu.edu>
Date: 15 Feb 91 08:46:52 GMT
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Organization: Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
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In-Reply-To: <1991Feb13.090336@burn.Prime.COM>

>Please pardon my ignorance, I just acquired a iigs.  I have no gs's at
>work to get access to the internet and ftp.  But I do have lots of Macs.
>If I download a gs file to the mac, save it to a 3.5" floppy, and take
>it home to my gs, will I be able to read it?  If not, is there a way to
>accomplish this?  Thanks.

>cfw@Res-C4.Prime.COM (Christopher Wroten)

Yes, the is a Mac program on one of the System disks called "Apple File
Exchange" that will transfer files to a 3.5" ProDOS formatted disk.  Be
warned, the program is hideously slow writing ProDOS files, but it does
work.  I've heard that there's another program around called "AIIFX" or
some such that is an Apple // program that will read Mac HFS formatted
disks.  It's supposedly much faster than the "Apple File Exchange."

In case you're wondering, "Apple File Excnahe" writes each block of
data, then updates the directory block(s) for the file, instead simply
writing all the data blocks and then updating the directory.

Hope this helps,


-- Charles William Swiger
    cs4w+@andrew.cmu.edu