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Software allowing IBM to read Mac disks

Susan Farmer sfarmer at goldsword.com
Wed Feb 8 11:10:14 EST 1995


James P. Gray (jp at u.washington.edu) wrote:
: Does anyone know of a good and preferably cheap program which allows 
: an IBM type machine running under the DOS/Windows environment to read
: Mac formatted floppies?

: Thanks,

: 		-James-

Far as I've been able to determine, you can't.  Apple won't "give away" the
disk format for folks to use to create such a program.  However, you can
read (and write) PC disks on a Mac.  That's how I have to do it.  :-(

Susan


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