Re: Xy on Mac revisited-Parallel Universe

["Patricia M. Godfrey" priscamg@xxxxxxxx]

Lisa Kleinholz wrote:
> thanks Patricia.
>
> The problem is that my 'tech guy' is a 'mac guy' at local mac store. He
> doesn't know from DOS. My workload is enormous for the next week or so.
> After that I'll try to read what I can and test to discover if I can
> see the USB floppy drive (or my cd drive) from inside Parallels DOS VM.
And flash wrote:

In my virtual machine, there is a "share" function in one of the menus
which allows the virtual DOS machine to 'see' the Mac file system.
When you activate the "share" function, a Mac choser window opens
allowing you to maneuver around on the Mac's file system and create
&/or share any folder. Then you use the Mac to drag and drop whatever
you need from a CD-ROM or memory stick or the LAN (for example) into
that folder. Virtual DOS should then be able to use it from that folder.

OK, that was what we needed to know. Now I have found a set
of expanded (i.e., not the compressed format in which M$ distributed
them) set of DOS 6.22 disks. I've copied them to my hard drive (data
partition, where they cannot confuse Widnows) and can burn them to a
UDF CD (along, if you like, with the "clean" Xy 4. setup I'm
creating). Send me a snail-mail address off-list, and I'll send you
the CD. Then, when things simmer down (believe me, you do NOT want to
try to do this kind of thing when you don't have time to give it your
full attention), you can just drag all the DOS files and the Xy
directories to your Virtual DOS disk, and off you go.
> Basically, Parallels might be okay for someone with a great degree of
> expertise in both PC and Mac systems. The documentation, however, is
> sparse...really useless for someone at my level.
>
> It's beginning to look like an expensive mistake.
No. Because IMHO we HAVE to find another platform. Xy may not run on
64 bit Windows (see Robert's post of a few days back); Windows will
continue to be a security hazard for anyone on the Net; and some of us
simply cannot stand M$'s arrogance and bugginess..

If I can get the time (I too am busy as all get out), I will try to
look at the parallels docs. But it is unfortunately true that open
source people don't know how to write docs. Neither does M$, but there
are publishers out there putting out books by the dozens about it.
--
Patricia M. Godfrey
PriscaMG@xxxxxxxx