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From: weiss@watson.seas.ucla.edu (Michael Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.comm
Subject: Re: comm btw Mac and Pc
Keywords: Mac<-->PC
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Date: 24 Apr 91 18:43:28 GMT
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In article <3194@bimacs.BITNET> eidlheit@bimacs.BITNET (The infamous Gadi Eidelheit) writes:
>1) buy an external 3.5 drive for PC, and move this to the Mac superdrive,
>problem is i don't know if i can move files from the Mac to the PC, can the
>superdrive write in MS-DOS format??

Yes, the SuperDrive will write in MS-DOS format, as long as you use Apple File
Exchange.

>2) i can make a direct link btw my PC serial port and the Mac Modem port,
>but do i have to buy RS232 for this or the PC modem port will be o.k.???

The PC's modem port is an RS232.  The cable you use to connect the two needs
to have the send and receive pins switched.  I believe this is a standard modem
cable for the Mac, but don't hold me to that.  There are two different Mac
Mini Din-8 to RS232 cables.  One is "for printers" and the other is "for modems"but I forget which one has the switched pins in it.