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From: dynasoft!john@stag.UUCP (John Stanley)
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Date: 4 May 88 19:40:30 GMT
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In article <4961@cup.portal.com> Thomas_E_Zerucha@cup.portal.com writes:
 >There is no way of doing so without a translator box, and that
 >requires a Magic Sac

   Wrong..  Read on...

In article <5112@umn-cs.cs.umn.edu> davidli@umn-cs.UUCP (Dave Meile) writes:
 >Not exactly true.  You *can* run the Translator One box without
 >a Magic Sac.

   True...

 >There is at least one shareware program on the program disk that
 >comes with the Translator One which allows you to transfer files
 >from Macintosh to GEM format.

   Nope Dave, you have it reversed.  The demo of the shareware
program that comes with the Translator-One (and the Magic-Sac)
for transfering files will take a Macbinary file on a TOS disk
and correctly place it onto a Magic-Sac disk or (if you have the
Translator-One) a Macintosh disk.  This allows a person to
download Macintosh files using his/her favorite ST terminal
program and then run them using the "Sac". 

 >(I think the author asks for $ to register and get the "full
 >function" program that allows transfers from GEM to Macintosh.)

The upgrade you get when you pay for the "full" version of the
program will take files from the Mac side and transfer them to
an ST format disk.

 > The program runs under GEM, and no Macintosh ROMs are used, so
 >you don't "need" a Magic Sac. [Though I *will* say that the
 >Magic Sac is quite nice in and of itself].

  All true... :)

 >-- Dave Meile


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John Stanley (dynasoft!john@stag.UUCP)
Software Consultant / Dynasoft Systems