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 I've had a 1040ST at home now for 2 years and with the arrival of
 Wordperfect and dBase am thinking of acquiring 3 units for an
 office setup, two 1040ST and a Mega 2. With the Mega 2 I want to
 have a BBS for my clients with the appropriate software and a 60
 Meg hard drive. The information to be exchanged will be text files
 not programs. My main concern is that clients who have IBM systems
 will not be able to retrieve and send information to a BBS run
 under an Atari system. I assume that the Atari arc programs cannot
 unarc an IBM arced file nor arc a file so that it can be unarced
 by an IBM arc program.

 Question

 Is there an arc program that can shuttle between the IBM world and
 the Atari world? If not, are there other options? I am not a super
 programmer.


 Secondly, I am not sure if  IBM telecommunications software
 programs can successfully communicate with an Atari BBS.


 Question

 Since the standard in modems appears to be Hayes compatible am I
 right to assume that this means that all software based on this
 standard must send the same ascii codes to get a BBS to upload and
 download files?

 I would greatly appreciate any advice and words of caution before
 I spend all this money only to find that the vast majority of my
 clients will not be able to access the BBS. If there is a software
 dependency as to whether such a system would work I would
 appreciate your recommendations.

 Alyre Chiasson
 Moncton, N.B.
 Canada