🚀 go-pugleaf

Ah yes been there done that....
A nifty little site you may find interesting is:
http://www.accesscom.com/~gamba/pc2mac.html
It details all the swings and roundabouts of transferring files from your PC
to your mac,
including making system boot disks straight from your pc. ( check
www.bootdisk.com )

Regards,

Mark

PS. Glad to see another leaving the shackles of wintel.....



Allan Cairns <axcairns@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:0l7y7.1771$Yy5.123299@ozemail.com.au...
> Hi,
>
> I am a long time PC user who recently picked up an old PowerMac 7200/90
> running OS 7.6.1 out of curiosity. The Mac has no modem (old corporate
> machine) but I would like to install some shareware/freeware from the net
on
> it. I have been trying to do this by downloading the files (with .hqx
> extension) onto my internet connected PC, throw them on a PC-formatted
> floppy and copy them to the Mac. However, at that point I run into PC
> Exchange. When I have this disabled, the Mac will not read the disk. When
I
> have it enabled, it insists all the files on the disk (with .hqx
extension)
> are PC Text Files!
>
> I have thought of several possible solutions/workarounds in a desperate
> attempt to avoid buying a modem. I tried configuring PC Exchange to
> recognise hqx but it insists I pick an application to open the file. I
> thought .hqx was an application! I also thought maybe zipping the files up
> and using Stuffit to expand may get around the problem. The other possible
> was the existence of utilities to change the file type?
>
> Your thoughts would be appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Allan Cairns
> axcairns@hotmail.com