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From: ajauch@ics.uci.edu (Alexander Edwin Jauch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Converting MS-DOS text files to Macintosh?
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Date: 7 Dec 89 19:40:45 GMT
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Reply-To: Alexander Edwin Jauch <ajauch@ics.uci.edu>
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In article <14314@eerie.acsu.Buffalo.EDU> cook@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU.UUCP (John M. Cook) writes:
>
>     I know people have done work with transfering data on one type of
>disk format to another, so I asking the Net for an update.  Does
>anyone have information about such a transfer?  I don't have the
>ability to a simple communication link via serial ports.  I need a
>software answer or even a way of installing a Mac drive in a PC???
>I think that's enough info to get some responces.  Thanks,  John Cook


get your hands on a Mac with superdrive (all the new Mac II's and SE).  These
drives can read DOS 3.5" diskettes directly.  Apple provides some software 
that will read text files and translate them fairly quickly into Mac format.

Your other major option is to use the serial port and set up a "no-modem"
connection by wiring the two ports together.  MacLink has the software and
cable to do this.  It operates at a maximum speed of 9600 baud (slow compared
to first method).  This requires no special equipment other than the package
which I think sells for < $50.

Sorry If any of this is repetitive.

Alex Jauch
UCI, AIS
ajauch@bonnie.ics.uci.edu

Disclaimer: I don't even know who makes MacLink let alone have a connection.