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From: cyliao@eng.umd.edu (Chun-Yao Liao)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2,comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Apple IIc / Mac connection
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Date: 12 Apr 90 14:42:43 GMT
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In article <90100.032435FADMICS@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu> FADMICS@YaleVM.YCC.Yale.Edu writes:
>I'm posting this to both comp.sys.mac and comp.sys.apple2, so I'm sure to
>arouse somebody's hostility somewhere, but here goes:
>1) The Mac does all the work: The Apple sends out an Appleworks print command,
>thinking it is connected to an ImageWriter II, but it's really connected to
>the Mac modem or printer port: is there any Mac program that could make sense
>of this stream and write it to a file? (I have all the usual X,Y, and Zmodem,
>MacTerminal, MacBinary, Kermit etc. programs, as well as one or two set up for
>Mac-to-Mac communication, but I seriously doubt any of these would work--just
>thought I'd mention it. I guess I'm really asking if any program has ever been
>written specifically to do this. Anyone from Cupertino reading?

	I wouldn't send the file as sending it to Imagewriter II, but try print
	to Apple Silent Type printer (it's a very very old thermal transfer
	printer made by apple, and it takes straight forward ASCII output
	from the computer. So by chossing Silent Type you get a straight 
	ASCII data instead of datas mixed with printer commands. Or, you
	can print to a text file on the disk then use any of those comm soft
	to do file transfer. A copy of Kermit can be downloaded FREE from
	an ftp site (I don't remmeber which one was the site)

> >2) Equal partnership: communications program transfer. On the Mac end, as I
>mentioned above, I have X,Y,Z-modem, MacTerminal, MacBinary, Kermit, etc. Can
>some Apple person recommend a shareware communications program, preferably one
>that can handle high speed data transfer (Microphone handles 57,600 baud on
>the Mac end) over an adjoining cable?  And more that just recommend: my friend
>doesn't have any comm. software (or else I probably wouldn't have to ask), so
>I'd have to mail somebody a 5.25in floppy to make a copy.

	BTW, if you try to send data back and forth, you can not just use a
	printer cable since the data line in the printer cable is only from
	computer to printer, a ground line, and a status line to indicate 
	rether printer is ready or not. You do not get a line for data to
	go from your computer back to //c if you use the printer cable.

>3)  And here's where I'm really getting out of my league. The Yale computer
>center has some Macs hooked up to external 5.25 inch drives to exchange files
>with IBM PC's (at last, some common ground between Mac and Apple users: we
>both hate IBM!) with a program called DaynaFile (or something similar), about
>which I know absolutely nothing.  Can this set-up read Appleworks word
>processor files (I think the format is called ProDOS)? I guess I could ask
>someone there, but I'd rather be semi-anonymous in my ignorance, and ask over
>the Net as a faceless name.

	Nope, as far as the set up we have in my working place, the 5.25 drive
	is designed to read MeSsy-DOS format disks. No problem even if you
	have your name printed since people here live and learn.

>    Please e-mail me responses directly at the address above; if anyone else
>is interested I'll repost to the Net, or more likely, relay the message
>privately if you ask.
>  Thanks a lot.
> 
	Oops, didnt read this at first glace so I just hit "F"


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