whinery@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu (Alan Whinery) (11/02/90)
Greetings, ST-ites; I am a non-ST person with a question. I have heard that ST disks are compatible with MSDOS disks, and I thought I would make sure of that before trying to send some GIF pics to my friend in New York who owns an ST. Can I write GIF files to 720K 3.5" floppies and have him read them with no problems? WHat considerations should I make? I might also ftp a viewer for him, (he has not Internet connection) do executable need special attention? Alan whinery@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu E-Mail Preferred.
csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Claus Brod ) (11/02/90)
whinery@hale.ifa.hawaii.edu (Alan Whinery) writes: > I am a non-ST person with a question. I have heard that ST disks >are compatible with MSDOS disks, and I thought I would make sure of that >before trying to send some GIF pics to my friend in New York who owns an >ST. Can I write GIF files to 720K 3.5" floppies and have him read them >with no problems? WHat considerations should I make? I might also ftp a >viewer for him, (he has not Internet connection) do executable need >special attention? STs can read any 720 KB DOS disk around. The other way it is somewhat more complicated: Most PCs don't adhere fully to the Microsoft conventions for identifying disk formats, and early TOS versions produced _slightly_ incompatible disk formats (fixed since TOS 1.4, so this is an old story). So your friend will be able to read GIF pictures as long as he's got some GIF viewer program for his ST. If you can ftp him one, do so and copy it onto the disk. No problems. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Claus Brod, Am Felsenkeller 2, Things. Take. Time. D-8772 Marktheidenfeld, West Germany (Piet Hein) csbrod@medusa.informatik.uni-erlangen.de ----------------------------------------------------------------------