On Tuesday, October 22, 2002, at 09:11 PM, chesnutt wrote: > I'm running OS 9.1 on a PM 7300. A friend just gave me a floppy which > I > believe was formatted (on a Mac Powerbook) as a DOS disk. My machine > tells me that it is unreadable. Does anybody have any idea what gives? > I thought File Exchange would enable this disk to open up > automatically? > >
Ah, the magic of floppies. These day's you're very lucky if they work at all. I have actually had the experience of saving a file to a floppy on one PC, taking the disk to an identical machine in the office next door, and had the disk fail to read. Try email. -- Peter Hinchliffe Apwin Computer Services FileMaker Pro Solutions Developer Perth, :::::::::::::::::::::::: Western Australia Phone (618) 9332 6482 Fax (618) 9332 0913 -------------------------------------------------------------------- Mac because I prefer it -- Windows because I have to. [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
