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- From: ntaib@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Iskandar Taib)
- Subject: Re: W4W to Word for Mac - Help!
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- References: <1992Dec21.231401.18617@iti.org> <Bzo48I.C3n@watserv1.uwaterloo.ca> <1992Dec24.085913.21140@lut.ac.uk>
- Date: Mon, 4 Jan 1993 15:07:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec24.085913.21140@lut.ac.uk> A.D.Bailey@lut.ac.uk (Adrian D.Bailey) writes:
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- >>Even with system 7.0 on the Mac, you MUST use Apple File Exchange to read
- >>and copy the PC file to your Mac hard drive. If not, the Mac will not
- >>recognize the disk and ask to format it.
-
- >Much better than Apple FIle Exchange, and far easier to use is
- >PC Exchange, which installs as an extension to the system, and allows
- >your Mac to read PC disks "transparently". The only way you'll know
- >the disk is in PC format is that its desktop Icon has PC written on it.
- >The product costs around 50 pounds here in UK, I believe it will be bundled
- >in the near future.
-
- There is also something called Access PC which does the same thing. I
- also recall someone mentioning a TSR that allowed PCs to read/write
- Mac HD disks (though what it does with resource forks I have no idea).
- They took Access PC out of our Mac labs because people were saving Mac
- work onto PC disks and losing it (no resource fork).
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