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From: typ125m@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au (John Wilkins)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Re: Reading Mac floppies on DOS
Keywords: DOS, format, floppies
Message-ID: <1990Dec17.024659.27475@monu6.cc.monash.edu.au>
Date: 17 Dec 90 02:46:59 GMT
References: <23@soul.UUCP>
Organization: Caulfield Campus, Monash University, Melb., Australia.
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ckoch@soul.UUCP (Chriss Koch) writes:

>Now I know there is an INIT that allows you to mount DOS formatted
>floppies, and you can use Apple File Exchange to read files from DOS
>floppies as well, but my question is whether there is anything for
>those poor souls using a DOS machine which will enable them to read
>data from a Macintosh formatted disk?

Answer: Yes. Apparently the Copy II PC board and software will allow
a 1.44Mb drive to read Mac 800k (& 1.2Mb??) disks on a PC. So a friend
tells me who has done this (I saw him do it!), altho' I don't know
the techie details.

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