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- >>>>> "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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