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- From: spencer@panix.com (David Spencer)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
- Subject: Re: Those PC-disk CDEVs
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.201603.10301@panix.com>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 20:16:03 GMT
- References: <1069@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov>
- Organization: PANIX Public Access Unix, NYC
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- jim@jagubox.gsfc.nasa.gov (Jim Jagielski) writes:
-
- >Since I have MacLinkPlus, I also have DOS Mounter 3.00. What this CDEV
- >does, for those who are curious, is enable DOS floppies to appear on the
- >Mac desktop - very nice. The thing is that it makes _all_ floppy disk
- >access (under A/UX... the MacOS too) _very_ slow, whether it's a DOS
- >disk or a Mac disk.
-
- Yup. It sure does. It's slow enough on plain-vanilla macOS, though
- it's much worse on a/ux. (And the floppy drive sounds like it's about
- to die everytime you put in a disk.)
-
- Which is why I switched to AccessPC. Mounts a <expletive deleted>
- floppy as fast as a mac floppy. Transparent file manipulation. Doesn't
- create lots of weird files and directories. Works great with a/ux.
-
- You should definitely switch. I still use MacLink for translations
- (AccessPC works fine with MacLink, too). It took me awhile (and
- actually having to RTFM) to figure out that MacLink has to reside on
- the MacPartition: It needs some files with "/" in their names; they
- have to either be in the System Folder (which obviously doesn't work
- when running a/ux) or in the same folder as the MacLink application.
- Hence they have to be on the MacPartition.
-
- dhs spencer@panix.com
-