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As a previous poster (George Kamis) noted, Next Step 3.0, can
format, read, and write Macintosh formatted floppy disks.

Two points to mention about it:

    1.  data transfers to and from Mac disks are incredibly
        slow -- it beats tyromancy, but only by a slim margin.

    2.  Writing files is flakey.  There is some (unspecified)
        limit on the number of files you can write, and when you
        hit the limit, the file system on the disk appears to be
        hosed.  Let's hope NeXT can figure this one out soon
        and at least let us know what the limits are.

        I have a hierarchy with fifteen directories and around 430
        files.  The total size of the hierarchy is around 700K --
        only about half of the capacity of a Mac 1.4 MB disk.  The
        limit seems to come somewhere between 100 and 200 files.
        I couldn't see a pattern.  I eventually transferred all
        the files to the Mac, and put all the files onto one disk
        using the Mac.  The NeXT appears to be able to handle
        reading the disk all right -- just writes are flakey.

    3.  (since I promised to mention two points).  Transferring
        files from the NeXT to the Mac does only that --  there's
        no translation services (NL to CR for instance) a la
        FloppyWorks.  In fact, I ended up using FloppyWorks in the
        end to do the translation, as well as to set file type and
        creator.

So be aware that the universe of discourse in NeXT to Mac disks
may not cover all the things required to move files around correctly.

        ........  Henry