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Date: Sun 23-Aug-1991 18:45:06 From: solomon@math.indiana.edu (bruce solomon) Subject: reading mac diskettes on NeXTStation A colleague has asked me, if he gets a NeXTStation in his office, but has worked on a file at home using his Macintosh, can he pop the Mac diskette into the 'Station. I told him `no', but that there were undoubtedly various ways to accomplish his goal (one obvious one being use of modem, but this is pretty slow.) I know this is probably an old question, but, not having a Mac, I never paid attention. Any help would be appreciated. --bruce solomon --math dept --indiana university --bloomington, IN 47405 --solomon@ucs.indiana.edu
Date: Sun 24-Aug-1991 00:36:13 From: mcarling@leland.stanford.edu (M Carling) Subject: Re: reading mac diskettes on NeXTStation In article <1991Aug23.184506.8027@cica.indiana.edu> solomon@math.indiana.edu (bruce solomon) writes: > A colleague has asked me, if he gets a NeXTStation in his office, but has > worked on a file at home using his Macintosh, > can he pop the Mac diskette into the 'Station. I told him `no', but that > there were undoubtedly various ways to accomplish his goal (one obvious one > being use of modem, but this is pretty slow.) I know this is probably an old > question, but, not having a Mac, I never paid attention. Any help would be > appreciated. He has a few options. If his Mac can read HD diskettes i.e. it is Classic, LC, IIx, IIcx, IIci, IIfx, IIsi, SE30, portable, or recent SE, both his Mac and a NeXT can read 1.44MB DOS formatted floppies. I sometimes do this. Alternatively, he could install FloppyWorks by Digital Instrumentation Technology on the NeXT, rendering it able to read Mac formatted diskettes.
Date: Sun 26-Aug-1991 13:27:50 From: tdawson@shumun.weeg.uiowa.edu (Tim Dawson) Subject: Re: reading mac diskettes on NeXTStation No offense to the people at D.I.T., but... Is it just me, or do other people wish that there were a program which allowed us to use Mac disks just like we can use NeXT and IBM disks? i.e. standard file viewer methodology??? Don't get me wrong, FloppyWorks is fine, but I never really liked Apple File Exchange anyway. (I think they look/feel very similar.) How hard would it be to take the Mac disk reading code and somehow add it to the UNIX file system software? (Dayna has DOS-Mounter for the Mac's non-standard and kludgy OS) Tim Dawson President, NUGI (NeXT User Group of Iowa) (we pronounce it "noogie")
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