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From: knotts@hpl-opus.HP.COM (Tom Knotts)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: PC <==> MAC ?
Message-ID: <63320012@hpl-opus.HP.COM>
Date: 14 Mar 90 19:11:51 GMT
Organization: HP Labs, High Speed Electronics Dept., Palo Alto, CA
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I have a PC clone, and I want to know if I can read/write MAC (gag) files.
I have a 1.44M 5.25 disk drive. Can I run the Dana program without buying
a special disk drive? Does it only make sense to read/write ASCII files, or
could I read in an MS Word file made on a MAC, then edit it using MS Word on
my PC, write it back out in the MAC MS Word format so that a MAC can use it,
etc.

It seems that these pesky MACs just won't go away. Since so many people
use a MAC, especially at Stanford, it makes sense to be able to interchange
with the PC.

tom
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