Apple Macintosh LC 630 DOS - Manual (Page 79)

Using shared folders
Because two operating systems have access to each shared folder, there may
be a noticeable slowdown in performance when using these folders for high-
speed PC applications such as multimedia programs, or during large file
transfers between them. For optimum performance, place PC application
programs and their files in the C or D drive rather than in a shared folder.
The performance of Macintosh programs is unaffected by placing them in
shared folders.
Since the PC doesn’t understand the concept of resource forks the same way
the Macintosh does, information in a Macintosh file’s “resource fork” is lost
when it is copied by the PC. For example, if a Macintosh file is copied
between two shared folders using the COPY command in DOS, that file’s
original icon will be lost, and the file itself may be unusable in the Mac OS.
Many document files do not have resource forks and can be copied between
shared folders with no problems. The applications that created the files
contain the resource information for these files. However, QuickTime files
cannot be successfully copied between shared folders.
In some Microsoft application programs, there is a misrepresentation of the
shared drive icons. When you open a file from a shared folder in Microsoft
Excel or Microsoft Word, the shared drive icon may appear as a floppy disk
or CD. This does not affect the file’s content, and the file is still usable.
Do not attempt to use shared folders from a DOS shell run from Windows.
Strange text characters in a document
When using shared folders to exchange documents between the Mac OS and
the PC, in some cases a Macintosh application program may not be able to
interpret the file format of a PC document. When this happens, the
document’s formatting is displayed incorrectly and you may see strange
characters in the document.
m Try using a different application program.
m Translate the document into a different file format using one of the file
format translation utilities available for the Macintosh (such as MacLink
Plus Easy Open Translators from DataViz).
m Transfer the text using DOSCLIP.
m Use the Export feature found in many programs.
m Use a PC-Macintosh translation utility.
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