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From: jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Converting MS-DOS text files to Macintosh?
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Date: 12 Dec 89 02:36:04 GMT
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cook@sybil.cs.Buffalo.EDU (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

I believe there's a Copy II PC board out there that will support read/write
operations to Mac disks.  I've only vaguely heard of such a beast.  Your best
bet, however, would probably be to get the Mac upgraded to one with the
SuperDrives which intrinsically support read/write operations to MS-DOS
formatted disks.
 
     // JCA

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