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- From: ear@wpi.WPI.EDU (Mr. Neat-O [tm])
- Subject: Re: Shareware wish list -or- does it exist?
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- Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute
- References: <66240@hydra.gatech.EDU> <1992Aug18.165219.11745@njitgw.njit.edu>
- Date: Tue, 18 Aug 1992 22:42:35 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug18.165219.11745@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
- >In article <66240@hydra.gatech.EDU> vapspgd@prism.gatech.EDU (Edward Hefter) writes:
- >>c) Some kind of file manager to work through my Copy II PC Deluxe Option
- >>Board. If the Mac can read and write IBM disks, I should be able to read and
- >>write their disks, dammit!!! The Copy II PC Deluxe Option Card (what a
- >>mouthful) does work in a normal DOS windowed session with commands such as
- >>mcopy, mdir, mdel, mtype, mcd, mmkdir, mformat.
- >
- >If there are any enterprising developers out there, it seems that this
- >could best be done by writing a Mac-format .IFS driver. This way, Mac
- >disks would be recognized as any other foreign file-system - OS/2 and
- >WPS using it seamlessly (like they do to HPFS) and DOS being able to
- >see 8.3 files.
-
- The main problem with reading MAC disks, as I understand it, is that the MAC
- uses a variable speed floppy drive. Thus, you need special hardware, such
- as the Copy II PC Deluxe Option Card, to read a MAC disk, even though the
- reverse is not true.
-
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