[Info-vax] OT: For MAC Lovers Only :-)

[Bob Koehler]

In article <5079c5d3$0$34158$c3e8da3$5e5e430d at news.astraweb.com>, JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot at vaxination.ca> writes:
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> Mac diskettes do not have "ANSI" structure that /Foreign expects.
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   There's an ANSI floopy structure?  The only ANSI structure I've
   seen is for tapes, and it is what you get when you do NOT specifiy
   /foreign on a mount.

   Generally /foreign treats both disks and tapes as a collection of
   blocks of which VMS has no a-priori understanding.

   I suspect if you cannot copy a Mac floppy mounted /foreign that you
   have the wrong blocksize.

   As for hard drives, I have one mounted /foreign on my Alpha, for
   which I sometimes try to reverse-engineer Apple's poor documentation
   and write a program to read it.