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From: tj@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Terry Jones)
Date: Thu, 21-Jul-88 00:18:24 EDT
Message-ID: <1988Jul21.001824.2757@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: University of Toronto Computing Services
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Mac-IBM Communication
References: <1988Jul20.182434.23239@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: tj@gpu.utcs.UUCP (Terry Jones)
Keywords: Suggestions needed

The original poster asked about the various methods of transfering files
to and from Mac and PC's.

We use TOPS and it is a VERY functional solution to many things but is
very expensive. You need a tops board for the PC and software
for both the PC and the Mac but once you have it all you can share
disks between Mac and PC like they each owned it. rag files into the PC disk
from the Mac Desktop, look at them on the PC as a sub directory etc.

Another recent solution is one the author sort of mentioned.
LapLink Mac. This is an inexpensive solution if two machines need to transfer
files back and forth. It costs around $143 from a slick operation called
traveling software on the west coast. It comes with a cable to hook a PC to
the Mac (Point, the cable comes with a 9 AND a 25 pin DB connector on one
end for the PC and a DB9 and a DIN8 connector on the other end for 
earlier and recent Macs!!) It is software that runs on both the PC and the
Mac. The mac side is passive, disappointing a little but I suspect
the IBM side was easy to do since it is like earlier PC-PC programs
from the same group. So you sit on the PC and one half the screen shows
the PC disk, the other shows the Mac disk. You can tag selected files
to copy, do wildcopy, etc. You also have options to add the proper
application information to the files as they are written to the
Mac disk so that you can just double click them to get them open.

It is all menu driven from the PC side and is really slick.

There is my suggestions.