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- From: cmp0136@sys.uea.ac.uk (P. Arnold)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn
- Subject: Re: Moving files between Arc's and Mac's
- Message-ID: <cmp0136.721673581@radon.sys.uea.ac.uk>
- Date: 13 Nov 92 16:53:01 GMT
- References: <1992Nov13.093905.4521@westminster.ac.uk>
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- > I have a A5000 and a MacSE30 and often need to swap files between the
- >two ( mainly because I don't have a printer for the Arc - yet ). The
- >easiest thing to do is format a disc to either DOS 1.4 or 720 standard. Put
- >your Arc files on this and then takes this disc over to the Mac. So long
- >as you have a "SuperDrive" Mac ( i.e. one that reads High-D floppies ) you can
- >use the "Apple File Exchange" program ( free with all HD-floppy Macs ).
-
- If you have a high density drive and a PC emulator on your arc then
- you can use an IBMPC Maintosh disk reader. This only reads/writes
- high-density Mac discs and does it rather slowly. Still its better than nothing.
-
- If you want a copy then mail me.
-
- If anyone knows a bit of 80x86 code then could they have a stab at converting it so
- that it runs in the desktop.
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- P.S. I think that the program is shareware but it might be P.D.
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