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From: spencer@eris.BERKELEY.EDU (Randy Spencer)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Mac disks <--> Amiga disks
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Date: Fri, 24-Apr-87 13:27:15 EDT
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Posted: Fri Apr 24 13:27:15 1987
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I was talking to Randy Burns this morning, and he was telling me about a 
product that someone on this net had mentioned that let one take files
from the Mac to the Amiga and back on disk.  Now I thought this would be
impossible.  The Amiga has a constant speed drive.  There would be no way
to read a disk like that on a variable speed mac drive, so I spoke to one
of our Mac Programmers here (I don't usually speak about work on this net)
and he said that you can do anything you want (if you have the programming
know how.  So I asked him if he thought it was possible to read disks back
and forth (kind of like dos2dos, or disk2disk) and he said that the Amiga
uses some funny way to get 880K (plus some) on to a floppy and that he didn't
think that that could be duplicated in software.  

So the question still stands:  Is there a program (for the Mac or the Amiga)
that lets me read and write disks back and forth so that I don't have to 
have a modem to transfer files from one machine to the other?

Should I be posting this question to the comp.sys.mac board?  And if I did
who would watch for replies for me?

Thanks again for your support!
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