Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!ll-xn!husc6!amcad!stech!sysop
From: sysop@stech.UUCP (Jan Harrington)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac_DOS Connectivity
Message-ID: <642@stech.UUCP>
Date: 22 Aug 88 09:58:56 GMT
References: <1988Aug18.155534.1725@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>
Organization: Scholastech, Inc., Waltham, Mass.
Lines: 26

in article <1988Aug18.155534.1725@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu>, heath@gpu.utcs.toronto.edu (Todd Heatherton) says:
> 
> or other PD communications packages.  Interested persons should look
> at September's MacUser, which features a section on connectivity (a 
> nice, new buzzword!).  Does anyone envision the day when you slip your
> 3 1/2" diskette into either machine and it will read the information which
> is appropriate (i.e. standard formatting).  Is such a thing possible? Is
> such a thing desirable? 

You actually can come very close to that today. If you get a DaynaFile with
a 3 1/2" PC drive, you can mount PC drives as Mac disks. (The DaynaFile
writes a small directory file to the disk). Then you can manipulate the
PC files as icons, just like you would Mac files. Though you still need
separate drives for PC and Mac formatting, at least the DaynaFile makes it
very easy!

Jan Harrington, sysop
Scholastech Telecommunications
UUCP: husc6!amcad!stech!sysop or allegra!stech!sysop
BITNET: JHARRY@BENTLEY

********************************************************************************
	Miscellaneous profundity:

		"No matter where you go, there you are."
				Buckaroo Banzai
********************************************************************************