mg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Paul Greelish) (10/15/90)
I write for the alternative newspaper here. When I do my article writing, I like to do it at home on my ST. I submit my articles on disk to the Mac-using editors because retyping s**ks, and the paper is desktop-published. How do I do this, you ask? Well, since the ST writes disks in (damn close to, but not exactly) IBM format, what I need is a Mac that can read IBM (MS-DOS) disks. The new Mac SE's and above have FDHD drives that can do this. At first I couldn't get the Mac to read the Atari/IBM disk. I did everything: 720K format, 360K format, etc. It seems that the Atari writes disks just different enough from true IBM format to screw up the (very primitive) Apple File Conversion Utility. The solution? Format the disk you save your data on on the FDHD-equipped Mac. The Apple File Conversion Utility lets you do this, just pop a blank disk in and it will ask you if and how to format it. Select MS-DOS format, at whatever density your ST can handle. This disk will be accepted by the ST, although it will be a little different from standard ST format (ex. the Mac will *INSIST* you name the disk; this name will appear as a file on the ST desktop (leave it alone!)) I basically translate ASCII text, command codes really screw the conversion process up. I go from Word Writer ST (ASCII saves) to MacWrite format. Data such as spreadsheet stuff might be possible. Anyone with any response/advice/similar situation can email me here at CMU. _______________________________________________________________________________ ______________ |\ /| | \/ | ike Greelish Carnegie-Mellon U. undergrad quote: "CMU is as close to artificial reality as you can get in 1990." stupid disclaimer: My opinions are MINE MINE MINE all MINE!!!
decouty@irisa.fr (Bertrand Decouty) (10/17/90)
In article <ob6ANRy00VIAE0gXMZ@andrew.cmu.edu> mg20+@andrew.cmu.edu (Michael Paul Greelish) writes: | I write for the alternative newspaper here. When I do my article | writing, I like to do it at home on my ST. I submit my articles on disk | to the Mac-using editors because retyping s**ks, and the paper is | desktop-published. | | How do I do this, you ask? | | Well, since the ST writes disks in (damn close to, but not exactly) IBM | format, what I need is a Mac that can read IBM (MS-DOS) disks. The new | Mac SE's and above have FDHD drives that can do this. | | At first I couldn't get the Mac to read the Atari/IBM disk. I did | everything: 720K format, 360K format, etc. It seems that the Atari | writes disks just different enough from true IBM format to screw up the | (very primitive) Apple File Conversion Utility. You are right: Mac AFE does not read ANYTHING but a 200% IBM format! | | The solution? Format the disk you save your data on on the FDHD-equipped | Mac. The Apple File Conversion Utility lets you do this, just pop a | blank disk in and it will ask you if and how to format it. Select MS-DOS | format, at whatever density your ST can handle. | | This disk will be accepted by the ST, although it will be a little | different from standard ST format (ex. the Mac will *INSIST* you name | the disk; this name will appear as a file on the ST desktop (leave it | alone!)) | Another solution is to use ibmfmt.tos from Moshe Branner: it works perfectly well with Mac AFE. Putting a MS-DOS boot sector with DCformat (3.0) is of no use because DCformat keeps the original size of FAT, which, on ST is 5 sectors and on IBM is 3 sectors! I think AFE tests this info. | I basically translate ASCII text, command codes really screw the | conversion process up. I go from Word Writer ST (ASCII saves) to | MacWrite format. Data such as spreadsheet stuff might be possible. | | Anyone with any response/advice/similar situation can email me here at CMU. | _______________________________________________________________________________ | ______________ | |\ /| | | \/ | ike Greelish | Carnegie-Mellon U. undergrad | quote: "CMU is as close to artificial reality as you can get in 1990." | stupid disclaimer: My opinions are MINE MINE MINE all MINE!!! -- [ Bertrand DECOUTY | EMAIL : decouty@irisa.fr, decouty@irisa.uucp ] [ IRISA - INRIA (Atelier) | {uunet,mcsun,inria}!irisa!decouty ] [ Campus de Beaulieu | PHONE : +33 99 36 20 00 ] [ F-35042 Rennes Cedex - FRANCE| FAX : +33 99 38 38 32 | TELEX: 950473 UNIRISA]