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From: nyet@nntp-server.caltech.edu (n liu)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps,comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,connect.audit
Subject: Re: reading mac diskettes on an ibm compat.
Keywords: mac,ibm
Message-ID: <1991Apr7.085103.28026@nntp-server.caltech.edu>
Date: 7 Apr 91 08:51:03 GMT
References: <1991Apr6.215936.15519@ibmpcug.co.uk>
Organization: California Institute of Technology, Pasadena
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gmurray@ibmpcug.co.uk (G Murray) writes:

>In article <111369@unix.cis.pitt.edu> kline@unix.cis.pitt.edu (William E Kline) writes:
>> This may sound a little strange...but...
>> I need to be able to convert mac diskettes to an IBM machine.  I currently
>> have a 386sx/20 with 5 1/4 and 3 1/2 inch H.D. drives.  Is there currently
>> any software or hardware that will let me read a mac diskette directly
>> onto my ibm comp, or simply convert it in?
>> I will be converting MAC Pagemaker files for printing...
>> 
>> Any help would be appreciated....:)
>> 
>    There are at least 2 solutions to this.

> 1) If the MAC disks are the newer high density type then the PC should be
>     able to read them directly.

> 2) There is a board/software by MicroSolutions called either MatchMaker
>     or MatchPoint. One of these allows a PC to access an Apple II disk,
>     the other allows reading/writing of MAC disks, but I can't remeber
>     which is which.

or:
   3) There is the easiest way.. if your Mac has a superdrive, there's
	  an init called initPC (i think) that allows the Mac to do the
	  writing in PC format for either HD or 720.. I friend has it; i'll
	  check if its shareware or PD; if it is, i'll binhex and email it
	  to you if you want. If it isn't, ask some comp.mac types (i don't
	  read those groups, so i can't tell you if its been discussed).

nye