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Subject: Re: wanted PC<->MAC file transport
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In article <1991Jan10.200828.15737@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, berger@iboga (Mike Berger) writes...
>var@garp.East.Sun.COM (Var Garapetian, Sun-BOS Hardware. 508-671-0298) writes:
>>Help Please...
>>I need to transport some files from a PC to a MAC.  
>>The two systems are not local and the MAC doesn't have a modem either.

>I doubt that this can be done with a software-only solution.  However,
>for about $ 100, a Central Point Systems Copy II PC Options Board will
>let you read and write native Macintosh disks.  The software is included.

All new Mac's can read and write MS-DOS 720K formatted diskettes.  There 
are several software only solutions that allow the user to take MS-DOS
data and bring it TO the Mac, as the original posting requested.

1 -- Apple File Exchange ships with all new Macs.  It reads and writes
  -- MS-DOS 720K formatted diskettes.
2 -- Two "inits" allow MS-DOS disks to be directly mounted and "viewed"
  -- on the Mac desktop. (The Mac-equivalent of typing "dir".)
  -- These are called "DOS Mounter", and "Access PC".
3 -- SoftPC is a software-only PC emulators that runs on Mac II's,
  -- the SE/30, and the Portable.  It fully emulates the IBM PC XT or
  -- AT with CGA or EGA graphics, LIM 4.0 extended memory, and optional
  -- emulation of the 80287 co-processor.  

If anyone is interested in learning more about SoftPC, I would be happy
to send a copy of a review I wrote recently for a Mac group.  Since
getting SoftPC, I have not touched my PC-clone.  The Mac runs the PC
software faster.  SoftPC runs under Multifinder, so you don't even
need to quit your Mac application(s) in order to use the "PC".

-- Bill (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu)
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