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From: umcarls9@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Charles Carlson)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d
Subject: Re: Writing Macintosh-format disks on a PC?
Message-ID: <1990Sep7.035807.12264@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
Date: 7 Sep 90 03:58:07 GMT
References: <20557.26e57083@psuecl.bitnet>
Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Canada
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In article <20557.26e57083@psuecl.bitnet> bpm@psuecl.bitnet writes:
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>Is there any way to write files to my 3.5" floppy drive (IBM compatible)
>so that they can be read by a Macintosh?  If not, why not?

Yes, with a piece of hardware called Copy II PC Deluxe Option board.
<Be sure its the DELUXE! board and not the older one!>
It will supposedly read/write Mac 800k disks, but not 1.44.

If you have a Mac with the 1.44 Superdrives, you can get an init called
DOS Mounter which supposedly allows you to insert a PC DOS disk and use
it just as if it where a Mac disk..

>Also, are there any utilities which convert PC text files into Mac files
>(physically, onto another disk for example)?

Check into the Apple File Exchange program, its included with every Macintosh.
Failing that, there is a program by Data Viz called MacLink Plus.  It
sends the files over the serial port and does the conversions on the
fly.  Includes many translators and works very well.


Charles