c60a-2ce@e260-2c.berkeley.edu (Mikey) (10/23/88)
I am currently running a Mac/Apple BBS that supports file transfers for both machines. The board itself is being run off of my Apple //e (the peon!). As it is, I have to transfer Mac files back & forth via null modem cable. I want to know if there is a faster (19.2K bps is too slow for the amount of transfers I do), more efficient way of doing this. Specifically, can I network my 2 computers so that either one can get files directly off the other one's hard disk? How much extra hardware/software will this require? What is the most economical route I can take? --------------------------------------------------------------------- Please reply via e-mail; I just don't have enough time to go thru the entire newsgroup. Thanks a lot! c60a-2ce@web.berkeley.edu@ucbvax.berkeley.edu...................Mikey *** Call Tanelorn III! (415) 540-1180. The Apple/Mac BBS of Berkeley.
joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) (10/25/88)
Using the Apple File exchange program on your mac, you can directly read and write 3.5" prodos disks in your Mac disk drive. I had just finished getting the proper cable and had stretched it across the room between my apple // and my mac to find out it was too short. Right before I strangled myself with it I thought of the Apple File exchange program. I gave it a try, launched it and inserted a Prodos formatted floppy. It recognized it and copied files without a problem. Whew! No more cables, terminal programs and obscure telecomm settings. Seymour
shankar@src.honeywell.COM (Subash Shankar) (10/25/88)
In article <Oct.24.16.56.28.1988.21421@elbereth.rutgers.edu> joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) writes: >Using the Apple File exchange program on your mac, you can directly >read and write 3.5" prodos disks in your Mac disk drive. Does anybody know of any decent translaters for AFE? The only ones I have seen are the Appleworks <--> Microsoft Works translaters (and text files off course), and it would be nice to have translaters for other typical formats.
alex@rata.vuw.ac.nz (Alex Heatley) (10/31/88)
>In article <> joseph@elbereth.rutgers.edu (Seymour Joseph) writes: >Using the Apple File exchange program on your mac, you can directly >read and write 3.5" prodos disks in your Mac disk drive. On this subject, has anyone *ever* sucessfully read 5 1/4 Prodos disks using AFE and the apple 5.25 disk drive? Every time I try, I get the message, this disk is not readable, do you want to initialise? I too, would be interested in addons to AFE to read formats, partically Wordstar to MacWrite or MS Word. Alex Heatley Computing Services Centre Domain: alex@rata.vuw.ac.nz Victoria University of Wellington Path: ...!uunet!vuwcomp!rata!alex P.O Box 600, New Zealand. Trolls can often be found under bridges ... or in Computing Departments.