Fund@RELAY.PROTEON.COM (01/16/90)
>I've recently installed Netware for the Macintosh v. 1.1 and am unfamiliar >with its features and limitations. I am trying to transfer files back and >forth between a PC workstation and a Mac workstation. If I have similar >programs on both sides EX> MAC WordPerfect and IBM WordPerfect, Excel and >Lotus, how do I get the PC side to read the Macintosh format? In Mac WP, >the Mac was capable of reading the PC format and converting, but I couldn't >do the opposite, unless I saved the Mac file in WP 5.0 format. >Any help would be greatly appreciated. A number of MAC progams can write and read DOS files. This is how its done. The PC can not read the MAC's data and resource fork files. Glenn Fund Internet: Fund@Relay.proteon.com Principal Research Specialist CompuServe: 75170,1060 Sanders Associates cc:Mail Fund at Proteonwebo DW Highway South Phone: (603) 885-6242 MS NHQ4-0138 Director of The Greater Boston Area Nashua, NH 03061 Novell Users Group. Co-Founder and President of the Affiliation of NetWare Users "ANU Day Is Dawning"
wittmann@ENGR.WISC.EDU (art wittmann) (01/16/90)
> > >I've recently installed Netware for the Macintosh v. 1.1 and am unfamiliar > >with its features and limitations. I am trying to transfer files back and > >forth between a PC workstation and a Mac workstation. If I have similar > >programs on both sides EX> MAC WordPerfect and IBM WordPerfect, Excel and > >Lotus, how do I get the PC side to read the Macintosh format? In Mac WP, > >the Mac was capable of reading the PC format and converting, but I couldn't > >do the opposite, unless I saved the Mac file in WP 5.0 format. > > >Any help would be greatly appreciated. > > A number of MAC progams can write and read DOS files. This is how its done. > The PC can not read the MAC's data and resource fork files. > > PCs can read the data fork of mac files without "special programming". The resource fork is hidden from them, but could be gotten through special programming. Most vendors haven't done this since the resource fork usually only holds executable code and special information meaningful only to the mac. We don't have too many programs that could possibly read data from macs, however we do have Foxbase, and it seems to be able handle it's data bases from both macs and PCs. In the case of word perfect, I'd call their support number. They've been pretty helpful in the past and should be able to resolve the issue quickly (one way or another). Art =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Art Wittmann Phone: (608) 263-1748 Network Manager Email: wittmann@engr.wisc.edu Computer Aided Engineering Center or: wittmann@cae.wisc.edu University of Wisconsin, Madison
VENUTI@HUMBER.BITNET (Adrian Venuti (USG - Computing Services)) (01/16/90)
You may also need MacLink Plus a software package which will translate MS-DOS file formats to Mac Formats. eg DOS WordPerfect 4.2 to Mac MS Word. I've seen it work!!!!