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Article #2123Re: moving dos WP between MAC and dos disk in mac
From: Brian Martin
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1989 02:52
Date: Sun, 30 Jul 1989 02:52
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In article <12718215MES@MSU> 18215MES@MSU.BITNET writes:
>I am posting this for a friend of mine...
>He has a 2x and needs to convert from Wordperfect on a dos diskette
>to MAC Word (or WP) - and back again. 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.
We purchased MacLink Plus/PC so that we could transfer wp files between the
mac and a dos machine, and it works just fine. One of my colleagues
uses wordperfect on the dos machine and I use ms-word on the mac. Also,
the file translation filters can be used by AFE, although I've found the
performance and functionality of MacLink Plus/PC far superior to AFE.
MacLink Plus/PC comes with a comm (file transfer) package and a cable to
connect the mac to the dos machine. But since we have a II/cx, we just put the
ms-dos diskette in the II/cx, use AFE to move it to the mac, then translate
it with the MacLink Plus package. The only problem that we've run into is
the loss of font type/size definitions when moving the file from the mac to
the dos machine.
>(Why isn't there a 'copy' button in AFE along with the 'translate' button?)
Umm... we haven't had problems with it.
-- Brian
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!ginosko!rex!ames!uhccux!bmartin From: bmartin@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu (Brian Martin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: moving dos WP between MAC and dos disk in mac Summary: Try MacLink Plus/PC Message-ID: <4456@uhccux.uhcc.hawaii.edu> Date: 30 Jul 89 02:52:18 GMT References: <12718215MES@MSU> Reply-To: bmartin@uhccux.UUCP (Brian Martin) Organization: University of Hawaii Lines: 31