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Article #7238RE: READING MAC TEXT FILES ON A PC
From: Kevin Reichard
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 1991 15:05
Date: Wed, 30 Jan 1991 15:05
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raymond@math.berkeley.edu (Raymond Chen) writes:
>In article <5685@marble.UUCP>, sland@motcid (Stephen Shortland) writes:
>>Does anybody out there know of a utility which will allow text files
>>on Macintosh format disks to be read on an IBM PC?
>
>A summary of responses to this (and similar questions for other
>foreign disk formats) can be obtained by anon ftp to
>math.princeton.edu:pub/rjc/csip/old.questions.Z; search for the phrase
>"Converting disks". If you can't ftp, you can obtain the file via
>email by following the instructions in the Frequently Asked Questions
>file posted monthly to this newsgroup.
Um, it just would have been easier to say there is no way to read Mac disks on
a PC, due to the curious format of the Mac disk drives. And it would have been
easier to say that the use of Apple File Exchange would allow you to throw PC
disks into a Mac for file transfer.
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