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In <1992Apr15.014811.9839@uunet.uu.net> donn@uunet.uu.net (Donn Seeley) writes:

>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:

>	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

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

We solved this problem with 2 packages. Central Point Option board, 
is a board that is inserted in series with your current disk controller
cable and floppy drive, and has software to read/write/format
Mac disks in a PC drive. To make the file conversions from one
Wordprocessor to another, we use Software Bridge (Systems Compatibility
Corporation) which converts from a huge number of formats to others,
including Mac WordPerfect, Mac Word, and MacWrite. My understanding
is that software alone cannot do the Mac-to-PC format conversion due
to the differential way Macs format the diskette to take advantage of
greater data capacity per degree of angular rotation on the OUTSIDE of
a diskette versus the INSIDE tracks. So the controller card itself has
to be capable of differentially controlling the writing/reading of data.