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From: chas@gtss.gatech.edu (Charles Cleveland)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: read IBM 3.5 floppies on MAC?
Message-ID: <346@gtss.gatech.edu>
Date: 7 Mar 89 03:20:34 GMT
Reply-To: chas@gtss.UUCP (Charles Cleveland)
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I am not a regular reader of this group and would so appreciate a response
by email.  If I get over 10 requests for a summary I will summarize here.
Otherwise I will send the summary by email to the requesters.

Mary, a friend of my wife's, runs a Desktop publishing outfit and my wife
would like to be able to take an IBM 3.5 in. floppy and give it to her with
say, for example, WordPerfect documents on it.  Now how WP documents, or any
other files, might have to be converted once they are on a Mac disk or in its
memory is not the question here.

We want to know what Mary can do with the IBM 720K 3.5 in. floppy in her
hand and her Mac on her desk.  (Yes I know what kind of Mac but I ain't
telling.  The answers will give me some perspective.  But please say what
kind of Mac your answers apply to.)

What hardware or software solutions are there available to a Mac user who
wants to read a MSDOS 720K floppy on their machine?  Software solutions are
preferred.

I'm sorry if this is the millionth time so far this year that this question
has come up here.  The subject didn't seem to be in any of the unexpired
articles from this group on this machine (I did look first).

Thanks.

-- 
"Our vision is to speed up time, eventually eliminating it." -- Alex Schure

Charles Cleveland   Georgia Tech School of Physics   Atlanta, GA 30332-0430
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