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From: aaron@jessica.stanford.edu (Aaron Wallace)
Subject: Re: HELP, hoe to extract a file from a macintosh disk from a PC
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In article <41135@cup.portal.com> ISW@cup.portal.com (Isaac S Wingfield) writes:
>khioe@mona.Jpl.Nasa.Gov (Kent Hioe) writes:
>
>>Hi, does any body know how to extract a file in macintosh disk from a PC ?
>>we need to download a file from a macintosh disk from a PC running Word for Wi
>n
>>dow ? Is there any program that can do that ?
>
>Macintosh disk drives are variable speed devices, whereas PC drives are
>constant speed; I don't think you can read the Mac disk on a PC.

This is true for the 800K floppies, but not (I believe) the 1.4 meggers.  Those
are documented in some obscure Apple doc to use an MFM encoding.  So, my
question would be: can a PC read the high-density Mac disks w/o special
hardware?  I remember being able to read the first sector of one with
Norton.  This would be a neat thing to have...

Aaron Wallace