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- From: paw@ausom.oz.au (Peter Watson)
- Subject: Re: Apple File Exchange problems
- Message-ID: <1993Jan22.145654.24722@ausom.oz.au>
- Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1993 14:56:54 GMT
- Reply-To: paw%ausom.oz@sol.cc.deakin.oz.au
- References: <1jla5iINN7se@usenet.INS.CWRU.Edu>
- Organization: AUSOM - The Apple Users Society of Melbourne
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- cb408@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (Jason Reames) writes:
-
- <I'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.
- <Then I run Apple File Exchange. I then put in the 3.5" disk. I get the
- <message that the Mac doesn't recognize the disk, and the question is asked
- <if I want to format the disk or eject it.
- <I tried formatting with different Sys Disks and re-installing Apple File
- <Exchange- I get the same message each time. I've verified the
- <GS/OS formatted disk both with System 6 and with Copy2+ and there seem
- <to be no errors.
- <I can't figure out what is going on? Any ideas? Thanks!!
-
- You would get this symptom if you had used a High Density disk on the GS and
- formatted it for 800K. The GS drive (unless you have a 1.4Mb drive and Apple's
- controller card) cannot recognise whether a disk is 800K or 1.4Mb, so it
- treats all disks as 800K. The Mac, however, can tell the difference, and
- complains because it does not allow 1.4Mb disks to be formatted for 800K as
- this has reliability problems. Therefore, it asks you to format it!
-
- The easy way to recognise a 1.4Mb drive is that it has TWO holes (the write-
- protect hole and a similar hole with no slider on the other side). They often
- have HD marked on them as well.
-
- By the way, you may have trouble converting AppleWorks 3.0 files into
- Microsoft Works if you plan on using the Works-to-Works translator in Apple
- File Exchange. It only works (properly) with AppleWorks 2.0 files.
-
- If you have a copy of ClarisWorks somewhere, you may be able to read the files
- directly (ie. without actual _translation_ by AFE, just _copying_) once it
- is on a Mac disk. The best solution is to use the Mac package "MacLink/Plus
- Translators" which has excellent support for AppleWorks.
-
- <Ron Reames.............reames@sendit.nodak.edu
-
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