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- From: FORDE@UV6.EGLIN.AF.MIL
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: AW to Microsoft - still having problems
- Message-ID: <9301252040.AA13713@apple.com>
- Date: 25 Jan 93 20:32:00 GMT
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- >> Why don't you copy the files onto a HFS formatted disk? Then you can
- >> try to open the files directly in Works. I'm not sure if Works has an
- >> AW translator, but MacWrite II does have one. Good luck!
- --
- >That's the problem. When I format a Mac disk on the LC2 the the GS (with
- >HFS on it) won't recognize it. When I initialize a disk with HFS from the
- >GS- then the Mac won't regognize that! I agree that the eaiest thing would
- >be to just the 'drag' the AW from the 5.25" floppy to the Mac disk. But
- >when I do that the LC2 still won't recognize the disk and wants to
- >initialize it. I've run out of ideas. AARRRRRRRRRRGHH!!!
-
- Are you by any chance using High-density diskettes instead of DS/DD
- diskettes? The IIGS doesn't care but if you format an HD diskette using
- GS/OS then the Mac won't recognize it at all. It expects to find a 1.44Meg
- format on an HD diskette. Of course, if you format an HD diskette on the
- Mac it will be in 1.44Meg format and the IIGS won't recognize it. I
- routinely trade files back and forth between my office Mac (IIci) and my
- IIGS at home. I have successfully used disks formatted on either the Mac
- or the GS. The only failures I have experienced occurred when I tried using
- HD diskettes on the IIGS. By way of experiment I just covered the extra
- hole on an HD and formatted it in the Mac then removed the cover and tried
- to read it -- the Mac gagged and said it was improperly formatted.
-
- Eric S. Ford
- forde@uvg.eglin.af.mil
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