garrison@zodiac.rutgers.edu (01/08/91)
Are there any programs that enable one to easily read 3.5" floppies formatted on a Macintosh in an IBM 3.5" disk drive? (Or programs that enable a Macintosh to read IBM formatted disks)? Thanks, Karl
sam@wolfen.cc.uow.oz (Sam Tan) (01/11/91)
philip@pescadero.Stanford.EDU (Philip Machanick) writes: >In article <345.2788f94c@zodiac.rutgers.edu>, garrison@zodiac.rutgers.edu writes: >|> Are there any programs that enable one to easily read 3.5" floppies >|> formatted on a Macintosh in an IBM 3.5" disk drive? (Or programs that >|> enable a Macintosh to read IBM formatted disks)? >|> >Depends what you mean by "easily". Apple File Exchange (which is supplied >with the system software) can do it. But you have to start up the program >before inserting the disk (i.e,. you can't just push in a PC disk in the >Finder, or at an Open or Save As... dialog in another application). This only >works on an FDHD, not on the older 800K and 400K drives. >-- >Philip Machanick >philip@pescadero.stanford.edu There is an easier way. Get (read BUY) yourself a copy of "DOS Mounter" from DAYNA. It's an INIT that will allow you to stick a DOS disk into your HD drive (SuperDrive) and the DOS disk will show up on your desktop. It even allows you to map DOS file extensions (.DOC,.WKS,etc.) to Mac file types (MSWD,MWII) for double-click opening. Enjoy. sam@wolfen.cc.uow.edu.au .