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From: awessels@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu (Allen Wessels)
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Subject: Re: Amiga in the Workforce
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Date: 23 May 91 17:10:45 GMT
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In article <1991May23.012705.24776@leland.Stanford.EDU> bard@jessica.stanford.edu (David Hopper) writes:

>Since when?  I know of *no* IFF viewers/soundplayers or converters for
>the Mac.  Pictures must be converted to GIF on the Amy to be viewed by a
>Mac (I don't know about the IBM).  Is there an Amiga file manager on the
>Mac or the IBM, like Mac2DOS or MessyFileSystem on the Amy?  As far as I
>know, it's a one-way trip.  Alternate file formats must be managed by
>the Amiga.

PICTure This(tm) on the Mac will convert Amiga IFF and RIFF files to PICTs.
Any Mac with a SuperDrive will read/write DOS disks, and the Amiga can too,
so the exchange would be pretty painless.