Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!UCONNVM.BITNET!STEIN From: STEIN@UCONNVM.BITNET (Alan Stein) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: MacTransGS Message-ID: <9003032025.AA21318@apple.com> Date: 3 Mar 90 20:09:24 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 24 On Sat, 3 Mar 90 17:15:18 GMT Scott Michael Blackman said: > > >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). > Have you looked lately? AFE will format a Prodos disk. I've found it more convenient that MacTrans, although far less convenient than an HFS FST, which Apple would have put out with GS/OS if it was run more intelligently, would be. Alan H. Stein | stein@uconnvm.bitnet Department of Mathematics | University of Connecticut | Compu$erve 71545,1500 32 Hillside Avenue | GEnie ah.stein Waterbury, CT 06710 | SNET (203) 757-1231