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From: chucks@pnet51.orb.mn.org (Erik Funkenbusch)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.tech
Subject: Re: Can the Amiga read Macintosh diskettes?
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Date: 19 Apr 91 18:05:01 GMT
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f87-sir@nada.kth.se (Sigurd Ruschkowski) writes:
>
>My girlfriend has just got an Amiga 2000 to program a utility

For the defense department?  they use amigas?

>for the Defense Department and as I have a Mac it would be nice
>to be able to read Macintosh diskettes from the Amiga so we for
>ex can use an Apple printer for text files.
>
>Is there a program that can make the Amiga to read Macintosh
>diskettes?

hmm.. if your mac has a "Super Drive" , that is, is a High Density 1.44 meg
drive, then you can use the apple file exchange to convert the file to IBM
format, then convert the file to Amiga format on the Amiga with Dos-2-Dos,
crossdoss, msh, or any number of the other utilities.  OR, if you have a mac
external drive (or you can buy one) you can buy Mac-2-Dos and directly convert
them.  however the Mac drive is a bit of an oddball and uses a variable speed,
the Amiga drives are only capable of reading about 1/3 of a mac disk.  so you
need to buy a mac drive to use with Mac-2-Dos.
>
>Sigge Ruschkowski
>Sweden

p.s. Don't use comp.sys.amiga, or comp.sys.amiga.tech, they were supposed to
have gone away a long time ago.. continually using them only perpetuates them
further.  please re-direct to comp.sys.amiga.misc


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