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From: captkidd@athena.mit.edu (Ivan Cavero Belaunde)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac
Subject: Re: Mac to DOS disk
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Date: 18 Aug 89 20:15:25 GMT
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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

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