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Subject:Re: Reading MAC in WINDOWS From:"Arlen P. Walker" <Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- COM> Date:Wed, 30 Aug 1995 10:21:00 -0600
Does anyone know of a WINDOWS utility that will let me access a diskette
formatted on a MAC?
I remember one called "Mac-in-DOS" which let you read 1.4 MB floppies.
It should be noted that if the disc is a Mac-formatted 800K or 400K floppy,
there's no software around that will let a DOS machine read it. The reason is
that the 400K and 800K formats depend upon a variable speed drive, and all PC
discs are constant speed. (It's one reason why the Mac format was 800K while the
equivalent PC format was 720K.) With the 1.4 M floppy, Apple went to constant
speed drives as well.
Have fun,
Arlen
Chief Managing Director In Charge, Department of Redundancy Department
DNRC 124
Arlen -dot- P -dot- Walker -at- JCI -dot- Com
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