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- From: pm860605@longs.LANCE.ColoState.Edu (Peter J. McKinney)
- Subject: Re: Mac Disks: Is there a program to read them?
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- Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 19:05:49 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec11.041816.23382@cs.brown.edu> cs011177@cs.brown.edu (Kwun Han) writes:
- >From: cs011177@cs.brown.edu (Kwun Han)
- >Subject: Re: Mac Disks: Is there a program to read them?
- >Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1992 04:18:16 GMT
- >In article <1992Dec11.005135.728@wam.umd.edu>, rsrodger@wam.umd.edu (Yamanari) writes:
- >|> In article <1992Dec10.114621.6928@unix.brighton.ac.uk> je@unix.brighton.ac.uk (John English) writes:
- >|> >haymoree@bones (Edward Haymore) writes:
- >|> >Is this true? If so, I can't see how you could read Mac disks on a PC or
- >|> >vice versa. I thought it was just a variable number of sectors per track
- >|> >(or is that tractors per sex?), which would still be manageable at a constant
- >|> >rpm.
- >|>
- >|> Mac disks are CLV, so no, PC's cannot read them. That's OK, though.
- >|> Most Macs can read MS-DOS disks (including 1.44's) just fine.
- >
- >Hmmm.... I don't know, there is a program called Mac-In-Dos around which is a Dos application
- >and claims to read Macintosh disks. May be someone can give more information on that....
- >
- >Kwun Han
- >st002255@brownvm.brown.edu
- >
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- I think there is also a shareware program out called "macsee" that lets a PC
- read and write MAC disks under MS Windows. I think there may be a copy in
- the pub/pc/win3/uploads directory of ftp.cica.indiana.edu.
-
- - Pete
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