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Organization: Penn State University
Date: Thursday, 13 Jun 1991 09:24:20 EDT
From: Lee Sailer <UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Message-ID: <91164.092420UH2@psuvm.psu.edu>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
Subject: Mac Sysadmin questions

A Mac has entered the community of machines that I support.  (I'm
glad.)  So I am appealing to the Mac community to give me a little
advice about the first set of sort-of-technical questions that
have popped up.

1.  There will be text files that need to travel from the Mac world to
    the msdos world.
    a) for serial cable transfers (or parallel, I guess) what's a good
       Mac <--> msdos file transfer program.  We usually use Procomm or
       Kermit now.  Is there a Laplink like program?

    b) same as a), execpt over telephone.  Same software, or does advice
       change?

2.  What if the files that we get are not plain text?  Is there msdos based
    word processor software that will read the main Mac formats (macWrite?
    Word? Other?)?

3.  Where might we find a Mac capability to handle Cyrillic characters, which
    we will be processing on a regular basis?

4.  Is there an msdos floppy drive for the Mac, or a Mac floppy drive for
    the PC?  (I should probably just get an Amiga to put in the middle.)

5.  If I only have one external CD-ROM drive, can I move it back and forth
    from the Mac (SCSI, right?) and msdos (SCSI, to be same as Mac, I guess)
    so that whoever needs it can use it for a few days?  (Assuming software
    is available for each, of course.)

6.  In short, all that stuff you need to support the computer for the
    rest of them 8-) 8-)

                        lee