From: josh musket (jmusket_at_nmu.edu)
Date: Tue Mar 23 2004 - 20:12:34 PST
Dan wrote:
>>I wouldn't be able to transfer to PCMCIA card if the Datarover needs to
>>format the card to its own specifications...
>>
>>Can this be done with Newton packages? It was my understanding that
>>the Newton formats a PCMCIA card in its own way and that it would
>>render it unreadable to a PC afterwards.
>>
>>-Dan
>>
>>
>
>Yes the Newton formats cards to is own speficiations. Nothing else can read
>them, well at least directly. You can take a image of the card and extract
>data that way, but it certainly is not easy and you need a lot of know-how
>to do it.
>
Two Dans? Anyway, why can't the standard be written as a system
extension (for the Mac - or a dll for Windoze (or whatever it'd be)? I
know that in OS 8-9, I can d/l a handy extention that allows me to read
Joliet CDs properly. In fact, why couldn't a extension be written to
allow the Newt to ready stadard format Cards. Or a compromise - a new
standard written, that with extensions, can be read by both Macs and
PCs, etc, and on the Newt?
Josh
PS, I'm idly wondering - are there any utilities to interface the Newt
with Linux? Just wondering, don't need any exact info.
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