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This utility enabled Macs to read PC disks, but only if they were inserted after launching Apple File Exchange. If Apple File Exchange was not launched while inserting PC-formatted floppy, the Mac would complain that the disk inserted "was not a Macintosh disk" and requested initialisation.
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in DOS format formatted as a 720K disk would not function correctly; the Mac assumed that any high-density disk has been formatted as an HD disk. To solve this problem, a user could cover the square hole with a piece of tape
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the write-protect tab, and re-insert the disk. (This square hole identifies the disk as a high-density disk.) Covering the square hole will make it appear to disk drive as a DD disk.
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which just translated the file system between different computers' storage formats. AFE could convert data files produced by one program for use in another, e.g. between
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Apple File Exchange was a file content translator, in contrast to the File System Translator of
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computers. It was included on the Apple "Tidbits" or "Install 2" disk in system versions
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