[Prev][Next][Index][Thread]

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



Follow-Ups: References: