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In <3974@svin02.info.win.tue.nl> robg@wsinfo11.info.win.tue.nl (Rob Gerth) writes:

>Does anyone have experience with Apple's Macintosh PC Exchange and is willing
>to comment on its virtues/vices as compared to AccessPC and DOSMounter?

At the moment I'm having problems getting my boss to let me buy a current
version of DOS Mounter so my impressions of that product are way out of
date.

BUT, I'm quite familiar with ~AccessPC and PC Exchange as I am evaluating
them for my boss at this very moment.

PC Exchange is very stable and has no apparent problems with most
software, but I did discover a couple minor INIT conflicts with some
PD/Shareware. The one major problem with it is that unlike ~AccessPC it
writes a directory to each and every DOS disk that it reads.

Now, I REALLY dislike this. While some people complain that ~AccessPC
writes the directory to memory and therefore mounts DOS disks a little
more slowly I prefer this. I don't want my DOS disk utility writing
resource files all over creation.

As far as I can tell, all three utilitys only provide Mac app
double-clickability on _disks_ and are no help on local hard disks or
NetWare volumes, that's really too bad.

So I'm going to try and get a look at the current DOS Mounter and then
choose between it and ~AccessPC.

-Geoff
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