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I have used both Apple's PC Exchange and Insignia's Access PC, and can
recommend
both, though I definitely prefer Access PC.

-- Access PC gives you the _option_ of saving the resource fork to the DOS
floppy (that is, the extended Mac filename you give the file, the icon,
etc.) while PC Exchange does it for you w/o the option.

-- When you give a file on a DOS disk an extended Mac filename, PC
Exchange
renames the DOS filename to be the first 10 characters of the Mac
filename, 
preceeded by an exclamation point. That is: a DOS file on the DOS disk
renamed
in the Mac finder to "My file of names" has its DOS filename changed to
!MYFILEO.FNA

Access PC is more intelligent. It truncates at the end, and preserves
whatever
extension you might have given the file. That is: you can have a file
which
begins life on the PC called "DATA.XLS", rename it on the Mac in the
Finder to 
"My Data File of Stuff.XLS", and Access PC will change the DOS filename to
"MYDATAF&.XLS".  Both programs retain the information so that when you
put the
disk BACK in the Mac, you get the long Mac filemane again.

-- Access PC can allow you to mount SoftPC hard disk files to the
desktop, and
copy files to and from the SoftPC hard disk w/o starting Soft PC. This is
VERY
useful if you're a hardcore SoftPC user.

So, it's my choice. They're based on the same basic engine; Apple
liscensed
the code from Insignia rather than start from scratch. Why not get the
original?

Mike Mitchell
ecoli@ccwf.cc.utexas.edu