Re: Xy on Mac

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Lisa Kleinholz wrote:
> The sharing, etc. is only available under most recent versions of
> Windows. If I set up to access CD, nothing. My external floppy shows up
> in the menu, but I can't write to it or read it under Parallels, though
> there is no problem when I switch to Mac.
The more I think about this, the more I suspect that DOS, in and of
itself, can in NO WAY "see" a mac drive; DOS cannot even see NTFS.
(Possibly the CD with MSCDEX, but I doubt it.) Seeing the other Mac
drives must be a function of the Virtualization engine. So the
question is, can Parallels do that? I should think it must, because
people running DOS or Windows games will want to copy them to a hard
drive or play them from a CD. So I should think your first job is to
find out how to do that. Once you can see a hard drive or CD you can
copy your DOS and Xy files to one or the other under Mac, then copy
them to the DOS virtual drive under DOS. (At that point, you want to
copy xopy.exe first, then use that to copy the rest.)
If--which I doubt--it turn out Parallels cannot see Mac drives, you
might want to try using an older Windows for your virtual opsys. I
have a spare CD and install key for Win 95, should it come to that.
--
Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx