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From: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: moving dos WP between MAC and dos disk in mac
Message-ID: <325@s5.Morgan.COM>
Date: 27 Jul 89 14:57:08 GMT
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Reply-To: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes)
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Mark Sartor <18215MES@MSU.BITNET> writes:

	He says that Apple FIle Exchange removes his formating etc, and
	so we just need a way to get the file from the MAC to the DOS
	diskette - a straight copy similar to the way TOPS will copy
	between the two.

AFE doesn't remove formatting in the "default translation" ...  what's
more likely to be happening is that he's not saving the document as a
WP/DOS document before the copy.  The formats are not compatible, but
WP lets you write the Mac document out in DOS format.  Then the copy
should work.

	Why isn't there a 'copy' button in AFE along with the
	'translate' button?

Because Mac files are not like DOS files.  They have two "forks" and a
"copy" function would simply not work.  I believe "translate" simply
extracts the data fork.

/jordan