Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!apple!claris!wombat From: wombat@claris.com (Scott Lindsey) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: Macintosh-->ProDOS Keywords: staircase, cosmic, Hammond, stowaway Message-ID: Date: 20 Feb 90 21:19:15 GMT References: <1011@spock.UUCP> <14002@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Sender: wombat@claris.com Followup-To: comp.sys.apple Distribution: na Organization: Claris Corporation, Santa Clara, CA Lines: 52 In-reply-to: MARCELO@phoenix.princeton.edu's message of 20 Feb 90 16:51:57 GMT Subversive: strategic In article <14002@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> MARCELO@phoenix.princeton.edu (MARCELO) writes: > In article <1011@spock.UUCP> mustang@spock.UUCP (Neil McNeight) writes: > > -Forget about any kind of direct link between //gs and VAX because... > > (1) I have no communications program, and > > (2) I'm NOT lugging my gs all the way to the computer center > > unless I absolutely HAVE to. > > > > -I've used Apple File Transfer 'till I'm blue in the face and still > > nothing. > .. You could probably keep on using AFE " 'till I'm blue in the face" > and never get anywhere .. I beg to differ. > The file that resides on comp.binary.apple (or whatever) is a text file .. Correct. Keep this in mind for later. > Regardless of where that file ends up it will always be text .. That means > it's text on the Vax on a Sun on a Mac on an IBM on an Amiga and on an > Apple ][ .. Especially on an Apple II. > There is no need to use AFE .. Yes there is: to get the text file from the Mac to the II. > In fact if you do use AFE it takes this data which is for an Apple ][ What? We just agreed that this was a text file! > and treats it like it was a Mac file (trouble begins here) .. It treats it like the text file that it is. > Now we take this file and convert it to Apple ][ format using AFE No. We use AFE to write the text file to a ProDOS disk. Same old text file: same on all platforms, remember? > (why?? it was in A ][ form to begin with) .. No no no... it was in text to begin with! > You now have a file filled with garbage That is useless to any and all > machines .. **BRAAAP** Wrong answer, but thank you for playing. You now have the text file on a ProDOS disk, ready to be decoded by Binscii or whatever on the Apple II. Pardon my callousness, but you don't know what you're talking about. Scott Lindsey | I dig iguana in their outer space duds Claris Corp. | saying, "Aren't you glad we only eat bugs?" ames!claris!wombat| DISCLAIMER: These are not the opinions of Claris, Apple, wombat@claris.com | StyleWare, the author, or anyone else living or Dead.