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- From: uerics@mcl.ucsb.edu (Eric D. Shepherd)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2
- Subject: Re: Apple File Exchange problems
- Message-ID: <uerics.727919706@mcl>
- Date: 24 Jan 93 23:55:06 GMT
- References: <1jla5iINN7se@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu> <635qXB6w166w@hogbbs.scol.pa.us>
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- In <635qXB6w166w@hogbbs.scol.pa.us> lone@hogbbs.scol.pa.us (John Hale) writes:
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- >cb408@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jason Reames) writes:
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- >>
- >> 'm STILL having problems converting AW files to Microsoft Works.
- >> My school lab has LC2's. I've installed Apple File Exchange on the
- >> hard drive of the LC. I've formatted a new disk on the GS and then dragged
- >> the AW files from the 5.25" floppy to the 3.5" disk, formatted with
- >> GS/OS from System 6.0.
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- [more stuff about the problem]
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- >Try a PRODOS disk, as in Mac-to-prodos conversion. That'll (as they say)
- >"probly" do it. GS/OS is just that, GS/OS. -LW
-
- Uh, no, guy. GS/OS is an operating system which uses disks formatted
- under a number of file systems, the most common of which is the ProDOS
- file system. There is no such thing as a GS/OS disk.
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- - Eric S.
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