Path: utzoo!mnetor!tmsoft!torsqnt!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!mephisto!udel!princeton!phoenix!blackman From: blackman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Michael Blackman) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: MacTransGS Message-ID: <14221@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Date: 3 Mar 90 17:15:18 GMT References: <17670@boulder.Colorado.EDU> Reply-To: blackman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Michael Blackman) Organization: Princeton University, NJ Lines: 57 In a previous article, Jeff (hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU) said: >Has anyone heard of a program called MacTransGS, that is supposed to >transfer Macintosh resource forks to a ProDOS (GS/OS) disk. I don't know >if the program is for the IIGS or the Macintosh. >Jeff Hartkopf >hartkopf@tramp.Colorado.EDU to which nagendra mishr (nagrendra@bucsf.bu.edu) replied: >there is a program called mactransgs, but it's worthless, or next to it. >it only reads 400k mac disks >if you really want, I'll send you a copy >nagendra Perhaps Mac Trans has a bit of life left in it: When we look at the methods of Mac-->ProDOS translation, we get: Apple file exchange, Duplicate IIgs (which I've never seen), AppleShare, Serial Cabling, and Mac Trans. Mac Trans is the only conversion that runs on Apple II's (any of them). Mac Trans is the only conversion that allows copying of the Macintosh Resource Fork into a ProDOS (non-forked) file. AFE won't do it. MTGS converts from 400k MFS disks to any ProDOS device, and is quicker (and more reliable, in my experience) than AFE. It is far easier for me to (at a Mac) copy the Mac files onto an MFS disk, and later convert them (at a II), than it is to AFE them onto a preformatted ProDOS disk (at a Mac). For AFE, you need preformatted ProDOS, and for MTGS, you can format your own MFS disk right there. Since, for me, it's a long haul to the nearest Mac, I don't want to need to go back for a ProDOS disk (which you can't create on the Mac). It would (of course) be far easier to pull out my Mac disks and use HFSTrans on them (or, for IIgs owners, use a hypothetical HFS FST!), but of course, we're all dreaming right now, right? MFS translation is close enough for now. Anyway, since I use this often, I have (for my own benefit as well as anyone else's) slimmed down the code, made it work on a IIgs, and have a few quick hacks to improve the useability of the program. I've put out one "new and improved" version whose main improvement is that it works on the IIgs. It is a quick fix to make it work on 800K MFS disks (yes, these creatures exist ... I've made a few). ...And we're all waiting for the HFS FST. Thanks all. Scott ________________________________________________________________________________ Scott Blackman, 155 Forbes College, Princeton University Internet> blackman@phoenix.princeton.edu Bitnet: blackman@PUCC "If I only had a brain..." UUCP: rutgers!princeton!phoenix!blackman