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Hi.  I'm on the board of the Wasatch Mountain Club here in Salt Lake,
and since I work for a computer software company, I got delegated to
look into a computer problem for the Club...

Basically I have the inverse problem to one that has been discussed to
death under the title 'Apple MAC reads IBM 1.44 MB Floppys?'  I need to
find out how to extract files from Mac 1.44 MB floppies under DOS
(and/or Unix and/or BSD).  Here is the situation:

  +	The Club will get contributions for its newsletter from members
	in the form of floppies.  Club members have Macs and PCs.

  +	The floppies may be Macintosh or DOS format 1.44 MB, and the
	files may contain Microsoft Word, Wordperfect, MacWrite, Lotus
	or Excel data (or even, God forbid, ASCII :-).  Ideally these
	file formats could all be converted to run under DOS document
	processors or spreadsheets (respectively :-).

  +	A stipulation is that the software must be stand-alone: we
	can't solve the problem by putting the Club's PC and a Mac on a
	network together, and we can't assume that files can be shipped
	by electronic mail to the Club.  We can't assume that the Club
	could buy a Mac just for the purpose of file conversion.

  +	Commercial (but cheap) software is fine, although freeware or
	shareware is of course interesting too.

The Club is really just interested in conversion tools that run under
DOS; I asked about Unix and BSD because I run BSD/386 at home (of
course) and I would like to be able to read the same floppies that
the Club gets.

Please mail responses to me at donn@bsdi.com.

Donn Seeley  /  BSDI Outdoor Recreation Dept., Utah Office