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From: unknown@ucscb.UCSC.EDU (The Unknown User)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
Subject: Re: Apple III disk format
Keywords: apple mac disk
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Date: 19 Feb 91 22:59:01 GMT
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In article <2958@cirrusl.UUCP> brian%cirrusl@oliveb.ATC.olivetti.com (Brian Feinberg) writes:
>I'm trying to find out if Apple III (?!?) disks can be read by an Apple II
>or Apple II emulator? I have a friend with a dead Apple III and I'm trying 
>to see if there's a way for him to get his data off his disks and onto 
>whatever machine he replaces it with. Could a IIgs read those disks?

	I know that SOS and ProDOS are very similar. I believe that they
are so similar that Apple IIs which can run ProDOS can also read Apple ///
disks.

	(I know that some of the filetypes in ProDOS are for Apple /// files)

	So just stick 'em in a 5.25" drive on an Apple and read 'em...

[As a totally off the wall note for other people reading this, someone else 
and I had a hell of a time converting some Magic Window files to a Mac disk!
Unfortunately it turned out to be someone traitoring from the II to a Mac,
but it was still interesting... They did it at one of our labs which has
6 very brain damaged GSes {i.e. most likely ROM 0 and definitely only 256K}
.. They also don't have much software... But they found Copy II Plus, moved
the files from DOS 3.3 to ProDOS.. Then we thought it'd just be easy to move
'em to MacOS with Apple File Exchange, fiddle with the filetype on the
Mac, and read 'em into Word.. right? Well it wasn't that easy..
They ended up having the 8th bit set, and we didn't realize that at first..
So they came up garbage in Word... Then we moved them to UNIX, and had UNIX
do the conversions with a simple translate script.. then BACK to the Mac...
God NCSA telnet even lets you ftp from Mac -> UNIX. cool]
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