Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!brutus.cs.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!cs122aw From: cs122aw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (Scott Alfter) Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple Subject: Re: MacTransGS Message-ID: <1990Mar4.074955.8430@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> Date: 4 Mar 90 07:49:55 GMT References: <17670@boulder.Colorado.EDU> <14221@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 25 In article <14221@phoenix.Princeton.EDU> blackman@phoenix.Princeton.EDU (Scott Michael Blackman) writes: >(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. That's strange. The blank 3.5" ProDOS disks I have were all formatted on a Mac SE/30 using AFE. (Only reason I have 'em is because I didn't have a modem on my IIe for a while, so I went from HFS on the Mac to 3.5" ProDOS which I moved to 5.25" ProDOS on a IIGS (don't have 3.5" drives, either) so I could use them. Then I got a modem. Haven't done that type of thing since.) On the subject of Apple File Exchange, I think the way the HFS-->ProDOS conversion is set up is criminal. It takes FOREVER to copy a large file because AFE insists on checking the volume bitmap EVERY F*CKING TIME a block is written to the ProDOS disk! If Apple is using this as a tactic to get people to move to the Mac, I think they'll cause people to wear out a lot of Mac 3.5" drives first. :-) Scott Alfter------------------------------------------------------------------- Internet: cs122aw@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu _/_ Apple II: the power to be your best! alfter@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu/ v \ saa33413@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu ( ( A keyboard--how quaint! Bitnet: free0066@uiucvmd.bitnet \_^_/ --M. Scott, STIV