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From: wilko@idca.tds.PHILIPS.nl (W.C. Bulte)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Spectre/Atari formats
Message-ID: <1471@idcapd.idca.tds.philips.nl>
Date: 21 Jun 91 07:30:03 GMT
References: <T54s41w164w@cellar.UUCP> <1991Jun21.031316.17980@mailer.cc.fsu.edu>
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In article <1991Jun21.031316.17980@mailer.cc.fsu.edu> boyd@nu.cs.fsu.edu writes:
>In article <T54s41w164w@cellar.UUCP>, darling@cellar.UUCP (Darling) writes:
>>I'm looking at a Spectre GCR system, which apparently reads Mac disks 
>>straight away, and wondering:  if I buy such a thing, is there an easy way to 
>>transfer files from ST disks to Mac disks and vice versa?  It seems that if 
>>both formats can be accessed this should be no big deal.  Is such a copy 
>>utility included/available?

If you are using Spectre 3.0you can use:

   AccessPC
   Dosmounter
   Apple File Exchange    (text only I think)

I tried both AccessPC and Dosmounter, and they work fine, AccessPC even 
correctly formats MSDOS disks. The above also works if you only have the
Spectre 128 cartridge, without the GCR

Hope this helps

(Note: I have never seen a PD or shareware program that does the trick; the
programs above were only on loan so I don't know their price)

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