Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!bloom-beacon!athena.mit.edu!captkidd From: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac Subject: Re: Mac to DOS disk Message-ID: <13626@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU> Date: 18 Aug 89 20:15:25 GMT References: <894@mtk.UUCP> <725@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> Sender: daemon@bloom-beacon.MIT.EDU Reply-To: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde) Distribution: usa Organization: Massachusetts Institute of Technology Lines: 35 In article <725@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU> csachs@oucsace.cs.OHIOU.EDU (Colin Sachs) writes: >In article <894@mtk.UUCP>, marmar@mtk.UUCP (Mark Martino) writes: >> ... looking for an external >> 5 1/4 inch disk drive with software that will let me read and write in >> MS-DOS format from my Mac... There are a number of way to transfer files from the IBM PC to the Mac... 1) To do *exactly* what you ask for, you will need either Apple's 5.25 PC drive, or a Daynafile. With Apple's drive, you read and write files to and from the PC drive using Apple Filex Exchange, included with your Mac. Although I haven't seen it working, it is my understanding that the DaynaFile is more elegant, actually showing the disks on the desktop and allowing direct read/write to them via the Finder or the SFPackage. 2) You could transfer files from 5.25 to 3.5 PC format using a PC with both size drives and then use a FDHD equipped Mac and AFX to transfer the files. 3) You could try to find a network with both Macs and PCs on it running TOPS. Then to transfer all you had to do is mount the disk and copy to/from it. 4) You could connect a PC and a Mac together via the serial port and use MacLink to copy files to and from the PC (it also does file format conversion, and I think [not sure] that the serial cable is included). I'm sure there're more ways to transfer the stuff (Rapport, for example), but this should do. -Ivan Internet: captkidd@athena.mit.edu