DOS Mounter 95 allows you to mount DOS formatted floppies, other DOS
formatted removable media and volumes on the Macintosh desktop. It
also allows you to double click on a DOS file and launch a Macintosh
application you have designated. DOS Mounter 95 can mount MS-DOS files
on the desktop, as if they were Macintosh files and you have the
appropriate Program to launch and display it; e.g.; .DOC > Microsoft
Word.
* DL #1: DOS Mounter 95 v1.0.1 as a Disk Copy 4.2 floppy disk image
and compressed to StuffIt v1.5.1 .sit format; it does not require
serial activation to use.
* DL #2: A blank DOS formatted 1GB disk image for use with DOS
Mounter 95 to help with file exchanges between host and emulated
OS's. It has been Zip compressed, use the built-in Mac Archive
Utility to extract.
? It is primarily intended to be used with Mini vMac, running on Mac
OS X 10.6 and later.
* DL #3: v1.0 rev 4
* Notice (for Mini vMac users):
1. Since the introduction of Snow Leopard (Mac OS X 10.6), support for adding files to a HFS formatted Read/Write disk image on Mac OS X was dropped.
2. Prior to this, it was easy to exchange files between Mini vMac and the host Mac OS, by mounting a writable HFS disk image on either host or emulator, to exchange files.
3. Mini vMac does not support HFS+ formatted disk images as it cannot run a Mac OS that supports HFS+, only HFS. So exchanging files between host and emulator becomes more difficult.
4. However, Mac OS X still allowed writing to DOS formatted disk images (and is the main reason for including this disk image here). i.e.; To assist with file transfers between Mac OS X and Mini vMac, using a DOS formatted mountable disk image file. Think of it as being similar in function to the "Unix" drive employed in Basilisk II & SheepShaver.
5. For maximum flexibility, this image should be used in conjunction with DOS Mounter 95 installed on Mini vMac running on Mac OS X host systems, Snow Leopard 10.6 and later.
DOS Mounter 95 allows mounting the above 1GB disk image on Systems 6
and 7. DOS Mounter works seamlessly "behind the scenes" never needing
user interaction, apart from configuration. It also allows the
exchange of files with long filenames on DOS formatted media, which
for System 6, is quite a feat (especially when compared to the "Apple
File Exchange" software of the same period).
So, if you use the Mini vMac emulator on Mac OS X; Do install DOS
Mounter 95, it really does make a difference.
Compatibility
Architecture: 68k
This Control Panel works in Macintosh Systems 6 and 7.
DOS Mounter 95 runs in emulators and can mount DOS formatted disk
images Read/Write (including long file-name support). Writing to DOS
disk images can be turned off in the Control Panel.
For Systems 7+ which can run Macintosh [PC Exchange][1], it's likely
to clash with that software and cause problems. It may be better to
use Apple's PC Exchange software, especially with Systems 7.5 or
newer, where PC Exchange is included with the Mac OS. And especially
with PC Exchange 2.1 (Mac OS 7.6) and onward, which finally supported
Mac OS long filenames as standard FAT long filenames and converts FAT
filenames longer than 31 characters to unique 31-character filenames.
However; experience tells me that "DOS Mounter 95" handles DOS-to-Mac
filename mapping much better than PC Exchange ever did. Replacing PC
Exchange with this utility may be an even better option.
See Also: [AccessPC 2.0][2], [AccessPC 3.0][3], [DOS Mounter 1.0][4],
[DOS Mounter 3.0][5], [DOS Mounter Plus 4.0][6], [DOS Mounter 4.1][7],
[DOS Mounter Plus 4.1][8], [DOS Mounter 98][9], [PC Exchange][1]
[1]:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/pc-exchange
[2]:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/accesspc-20
[3]:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/accesspc-30
[4]:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/dos-mounter-10
[5]:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/dos-mounter-30
[6]:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/dos-mounter-plus-40
[7]:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/dos-mounter-41
[8]:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/dos-mounter-plus-41
[9]:
http://macintoshgarden.org/apps/dos-mounter-98
