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Re: Floppy Access?



>>>>> "Scott" == Scott Shuchart <shuchart@fas.harvard.edu> writes:
In article <4djc5i$ki3@decaxp.harvard.edu> shuchart@fas.harvard.edu (Scott Shuchart) writes:


    Scott> [second attempt to post this...]  In article
    Scott> <4dejvu$ep5@news.vcd.hp.com>, Dan_Richardson@vcd.hp.com
    Scott> (Daniel C. Richardson) declares...
    >>  I can't format a floppy under Executor/Dos 1.99q.  I have a HP
    >> Netserver 5/66LC, 32 meg ram, ATI Mach64 video, floppy as A:
    >> 
    >> When I boot Executor under any circumstances, it always says
    >> that the floppy hasn't been Low-Level formatted yet.

    Scott> I think you have to format the disk with DOS to do the
    Scott> low-level format. PC and Mac disks share a low-level
    Scott> format, I think, so executor must only do the logical
    Scott> formatting.

True.  Executor requires that the diskette already be low-level
formatted.  However, we've had reports of 1.99q breaking floppy access
in some systems, so that could also be a cause of the trouble.  I'm
hoping to track the floppy problem down soon, since it's one of the
biggies that is holding back the beta (beyond my backlog of news and
e-mail).

    Scott> [snip]

    >> Also, is the Executor format of breaking up the file into 2
    >> components compatible with MacOS's PC Exchange format?

    Scott> Maybe.  Here's the deal: PC Exchange puts the data fork of
    Scott> the mac file wherever you drag it on the PC disk, and
    Scott> creates a "resource.frk" folder into which it puts all of
    Scott> the resource data. Executor uses an older--written by
    Scott> Apple, damn them--standard which puts the resource fork in
    Scott> the same directory as the data fork, but with a "%"
    Scott> prepended to the file name.  What you'd need to do would be
    Scott> to 1) copy the files to a PC disk 2) create a
    Scott> "resource.frk" directory 3) move the %-files to that
    Scott> directory 4) delete the %-sign 5) make sure the two files
    Scott> have the same name in the dos 8.3 character name.

    Scott> It might work.

I'm guessing it won't.  If the resource.frk folder contains only the
resource forks of files, then you won't be able to use the %files
since they actually contain the resource fork and extra stuff.  The
extra stuff includes the file type and creator and a simple map that
shows what types of extra stuff are present and where the extra stuff
is located.  On the other hand, if resource.frk is a misnomer, and it
really just contains the apple-double non-data section, then it will
work.

    Scott> -- Scott Shuchart shuchart@fas.harvard.edu

--Cliff
ctm@ardi.com


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