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Article #27150Re: WordPerfect for MAC & IBMPC
From: Karl C. Kelley
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1988 20:32
Date: Mon, 11 Apr 1988 20:32
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You are not likely to be successful writing a disk on a mac to be read on the pc. Instead you want to be looking at programs which allow you to connect the serial ports or somesuch of the two machines and use a kind of file transfer technique. Numerous means exist to do this and your choice will depend a lot on how frequently you need to do it, the amount of money you can apply (eg TOPS can connect the two together), and on your tolerance for what at first might seem like complicated series of actions to perform. If you can put up with the latter you might want to look into Kermit which can be used for this purpose. The Mac telecommunications program Red Ryder has a workable implementation of Kermit on that side. Whether you escape this with your sanity, and whether many of us who may want to do the same thing if you are successful, depends almost solely on whether the provider of WordPerfect for both machines has provided the means to write the files in such a way that they can support this kind of transfer. If they did not it would in my mind be reason enough to disdain the product on either platform.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!mnetor!uunet!lll-winken!lll-tis!ames!sgi!wdl1!kck From: kck@wdl1.UUCP (Karl C. Kelley) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: WordPerfect for MAC & IBMPC Message-ID: <4210023@wdl1.UUCP> Date: 11 Apr 88 20:32:03 GMT References: <550@mccc.UUCP> Lines: 16