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From: etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: To and From a Mac
Message-ID: <1991Feb4.134857.18782@ericsson.se>
Date: 4 Feb 91 13:48:57 GMT
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In article <1236@h.cs.wvu.wvnet.edu> parker@cs.wvu.wvnet.edu (James Parker) writes:
>
> %I have an Amiga 1000 at home, and want to word process/spreadsheet at
> %home, then take the results to school to be printed on one of many
> %Mac's connected to LaserWriters.
>
> %First, I'd like to hear any comments from people who are doing
> %somethink like that-- are you using AMAX?  Mac2Dos? A modem and PD
> %software?  How difficult is it?  What kinds of files are you able to
> %transfer?  Can you transfer word processor files?  Spreadsheet files?
>
>AMAXII comes with a new transfer program that runs on the Amax side and
>allows one to read/write AmigaDOS disks.  It also has hard drive support
>for a Mac partition.  So...do this:
>
>	o Get CrossDos to read/write IBM floppies on existing Amiga drives.
>	o Use AMAXII to word process, etc your Mac files.
>	o Transfer them to an AmigaDOS disk with AMAXII->Amiga utility.
>	o Go to AmigaDOS and copy file to IBM disk.
>	o Find a Mac with SuperDrive and use AppleFileExchange to read the IBM
>	  disk onto the Mac HardDrive.

Can I copy programs with resource forks from Mac to A-Max using AppleFileExchange?

Does the Mac IIci have a SuperDrive? (I beleive so)

Tommy Petersson
etxtomp@eos.ericsson.se