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- From: hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au (Peter Hinchliffe)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Use ProDOS disks in a MAC
- Date: 23 Jan 1993 08:28:12 GMT
- Lines: 54
- Message-ID: <1jqvisINNll6@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au>
- References: <1jb3fnINN3ud@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au> <1993Jan19.021026.17608@gallant.apple.com>
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- unknown@apple.com (Matt Ackeret) writes:
-
- >In article <1jb3fnINN3ud@newsman.csu.murdoch.edu.au> Peter Hinchliffe,
- >hinchlif@csuvax1.csu.murdoch.edu.au writes:
- >> Don't try to use it to copy Mac files to a ProDOS disk, though. Most of the
- >> files you'll want to copy, such as TrueType fonts, etc, and, indeed, the
- >> ProDOS File System Extension itself, contain resources, and will not copy.
- >Straight
-
- >What are you talking about? Are you trying to say that they will be
- >(for the most part) unusable on 8 bit Apple IIs, or do you think they
- >literally won't copy? I just copied a few applications to a ProDOS disk, and
- >they definitely copied, with all resources intact.. (I opened them up
- >from the floppy with ResEdit)
- >--
- >unknown@apple.com Apple II Forever
- >unknown@ucscb.ucsc.edu These opinions are mine, not Apple's.
-
- I think I'd better get out my jumbo sized tube of burn cream after saying this
-
- <:-|
-
- Without being pedantic about it, every time I have tried to copy a file from a
- Mac disk to a ProDOS disk, and it has been a file which has contained a
- resource, I have come up with errors. Even the ProDOS extension itself produced
- an error code when I tried to copy it to a ProDOS disk. When I inserted a Mac
- disk, the file copied with no problems.
-
- I was putting this problem down to the presence of resources (and the ProDOS
- Extension IS a resource), but too many people now have told me that they have
- successfully copied resource files that my errors must be due to something else.
-
- The next logical thing that springs to mind is that the filenames are not being
- translated properly. Certainly the filename "ProDOS File System" does not sit
- happily with ProDOS, but I would expect some sort of dialog either advising me
- that the filename had been translated to a format acceptable to ProDOS, or
- prompting me to supply one, just as I am used to in GS/OS. Instead, all I ever
- get is a rather impolite error code.
-
- Not to let this thing completely out of hand, I'll go back and try again...
-
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