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Re: Floppy Access?
[second attempt to post this...]
In article <4dejvu$ep5@news.vcd.hp.com>, Dan_Richardson@vcd.hp.com (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.
I think you have to format the disk with DOS to do the low-level format. PC
and Mac disks share a low-level format, I think, so executor must only do
the logical formatting.
[snip]
>Also, is the Executor format of breaking up the file into 2 components
>compatible with MacOS's PC Exchange format?
Maybe. Here's the deal: PC Exchange puts the data fork of the mac file
wherever you drag it on the PC disk, and creates a "resource.frk" folder
into which it puts all of the resource data. Executor uses an older--written
by Apple, damn them--standard which puts the resource fork in the same
directory as the data fork, but with a "%" prepended to the file name. What
you'd need to do would be to
1) copy the files to a PC disk
2) create a "resource.frk" directory
3) move the %-files to that directory
4) delete the %-sign
5) make sure the two files have the same name in the dos 8.3
character name.
It might work.
--
Scott Shuchart
shuchart@fas.harvard.edu
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