Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!otter.hpl.hp.com!hpltoad!ghiggins!gjh From: gjh@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Graham Higgins) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Spectre/Atari formats Message-ID: Date: 21 Jun 91 08:52:25 GMT References: <1991Jun21.031316.17980@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> Sender: news@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Usenet News Administrator) Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 31 In-Reply-To: boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu's message of 21 Jun 91 03:13:16 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: ghiggins.hpl.hp.com >I'm looking at a Spectre GCR system, which apparently reads Mac disks >straight away, and wondering: if I buy such a thing, is there an easy way to >transfer files from ST disks to Mac disks and vice versa? It seems that if >both formats can be accessed this should be no big deal. Is such a copy >utility included/available? Yes, there is a utility called Transverter which allows fairly free transfer between ST format disks and MFS format Mac disks. I have an MFS HD partition on under Spectre which I use as a source/destination area for file transfers. It allows Binary or Text format and with the Binary, enables Spectre to recognise the file types (.SIT, etc). ++ I posted something along this line, and was told that there are several ++ utilities available for the mac that allow it to read/write IBM format ++ disks (which of course work on the ST). I seem to remember that at least ++ one of these packages is PD or shareware. But beware, most of this is TEXT only, Transverter allows transfer of Binaries. Graham ====== ------------------------------------------------------------------ Graham Higgins | gjh%ghiggins@hpl.hp.co.uk Hewlett-Packard Labs | gjh%ghiggins@hplb.hpl.hp.com Filton Road, Stoke Gifford | gjh%hplb.csnet@csnet-relay.arpa Bristol, U.K. | ...!mcvax!ukc!hplb!gjh Tel: +44 272 799910 x24014 Fax: +44 272 790554 ------------------------------------------------------------------ Disclaimer: My opinions above are exactly that, mine and opinions. ------------------------------------------------------------------