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From: dnagent@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU (Mark D Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Dyana's DOS mounter
Summary: Try the demo version & see for yourself
Keywords: Dayna DOS Mounter demo
Message-ID: <3999@jhunix.HCF.JHU.EDU>
Date: 20 Jan 90 16:28:14 GMT
References: <21840@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU>
Reply-To: dnagent@jhunix.UUCP (Mark D Phillips)
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In article <21840@uflorida.cis.ufl.EDU> pff@beach.cis.ufl.edu () writes:
>Has anybody out there used this software?
>Does it allow aplications such as MS Word to read a DOS disk (on a FHDH drive)
>directly, without a translator.  Is there any software (besides Soft PC) that
>will let you do that?

There was a demo version of DOS Mounter released to the general public and
which I am pretty sure is in the info-mac archives.  It is fully functional
with the only 'crippling' being that it only works with DOS disks labelled
(using the LABEL command) 'DEMO'.  Give it a try and see for yourself.

One thing they don't mention in the DOS Mounter Demo docs is that you can
Command-Option-Double-Click on the INIT and set the creator types that go
with the different 3 letter suffixes.  So you can set it so that any file
named <filename>.TXT will open Word, MacWrite II, Nisus or whatever.

The only problem I have had with it is that it is so good at fooling the
Mac OS into thinking it is a Mac disk in the drive, that Apple File
Exchange will not allow you to use the MS-DOS->Mac file translations to
convert files, forcing me to turn OFF the INIT and reboot in order to
do conversions.  Does anyone know how to get around this, or am I doing
something wrong?

--Mark Phillips