var@garp.East.Sun.COM (Var Garapetian, Sun-BOS Hardware. 508-671-0298) (01/07/91)
Help Please...
I need to transport some files from a PC to a MAC.
The two systems are not local and the MAC doesn't have a modem either.
So if I could get a program that runs on one of the 2 systems and can
read/write 3.5" floppies, using the other one's format would be the
ideal thing...
Of course not having much experience or access to a MAC, I would prefer
to do the work on the PC and send the floppies ready for use by a MAC.:-)
Any suggestions and/or pointers to such a program will be great.
Thanks in advance,
-var.
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============================================================================berger@iboga (Mike Berger) (01/11/91)
var@garp.East.Sun.COM (Var Garapetian, Sun-BOS Hardware. 508-671-0298) writes: >Help Please... >I need to transport some files from a PC to a MAC. >The two systems are not local and the MAC doesn't have a modem either. *---- I doubt that this can be done with a software-only solution. However, for about $ 100, a Central Point Systems Copy II PC Options Board will let you read and write native Macintosh disks. The software is included. -- Mike Berger Department of Statistics, University of Illinois AT&TNET 217-244-6067 Internet berger@atropa.stat.uiuc.edu
johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu (01/11/91)
In article <1991Jan10.200828.15737@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>, berger@iboga (Mike Berger) writes... >var@garp.East.Sun.COM (Var Garapetian, Sun-BOS Hardware. 508-671-0298) writes: >>Help Please... >>I need to transport some files from a PC to a MAC. >>The two systems are not local and the MAC doesn't have a modem either. >I doubt that this can be done with a software-only solution. However, >for about $ 100, a Central Point Systems Copy II PC Options Board will >let you read and write native Macintosh disks. The software is included. All new Mac's can read and write MS-DOS 720K formatted diskettes. There are several software only solutions that allow the user to take MS-DOS data and bring it TO the Mac, as the original posting requested. 1 -- Apple File Exchange ships with all new Macs. It reads and writes -- MS-DOS 720K formatted diskettes. 2 -- Two "inits" allow MS-DOS disks to be directly mounted and "viewed" -- on the Mac desktop. (The Mac-equivalent of typing "dir".) -- These are called "DOS Mounter", and "Access PC". 3 -- SoftPC is a software-only PC emulators that runs on Mac II's, -- the SE/30, and the Portable. It fully emulates the IBM PC XT or -- AT with CGA or EGA graphics, LIM 4.0 extended memory, and optional -- emulation of the 80287 co-processor. If anyone is interested in learning more about SoftPC, I would be happy to send a copy of a review I wrote recently for a Mac group. Since getting SoftPC, I have not touched my PC-clone. The Mac runs the PC software faster. SoftPC runs under Multifinder, so you don't even need to quit your Mac application(s) in order to use the "PC". -- Bill (johnston@oscar.ccm.udel.edu) -- 38 Chambers St.; Newark, DE 19711; (302)368-1949