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Article #2055Re: moving dos WP between MAC and dos disk in mac
From: Jordan Hayes
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1989 14:57
Date: Thu, 27 Jul 1989 14:57
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Mark Sartor <18215MES@MSU.BITNET> writes: He says that Apple FIle Exchange removes his formating etc, and so we just need a way to get the file from the MAC to the DOS diskette - a straight copy similar to the way TOPS will copy between the two. AFE doesn't remove formatting in the "default translation" ... what's more likely to be happening is that he's not saving the document as a WP/DOS document before the copy. The formats are not compatible, but WP lets you write the Mac document out in DOS format. Then the copy should work. Why isn't there a 'copy' button in AFE along with the 'translate' button? Because Mac files are not like DOS files. They have two "forks" and a "copy" function would simply not work. I believe "translate" simply extracts the data fork. /jordan
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cica!iuvax!uxc.cso.uiuc.edu!csd4.milw.wisc.edu!lll-winken!uunet!mstan!jordan From: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: moving dos WP between MAC and dos disk in mac Message-ID: <325@s5.Morgan.COM> Date: 27 Jul 89 14:57:08 GMT References: <12718215MES@MSU> Reply-To: jordan@Morgan.COM (Jordan Hayes) Organization: Morgan Stanley and Co., NY, NY Lines: 21