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| 376.1 | How I do it | DOOBER::MESSENGER | Dreamer Fithp | Tue Jan 17 1989 15:15 | 24 |
| I've used serial transfer several times.
You'll need a cable from the serial port on the Macintosh to the
serial port on the ST. If you don't have one of these, use a 'Mac
to modem' cable and a null modem adaptor, which are available at
virtually any Apple dealer.
I run Red Ryder on the Macintosh (2048Ke) and UniTerm on the ST.
Set both sides for 19.2 kbps. With the cable connected between the
two machines, type on one machine and see if what you typed comes
up on the other machine.
Once you've established communications, select 'XMODEM transfer'
under UniTerm's file transfer options. If the file on the ST is
*not* in MacBinary format (probably the case), tell Red Ryder to
receive a file using 'straight XMODEM' transfer. Use <ALT>T on the
ST to get the file transfer menu, select 'send', then use the file
selector to choose the file to send.
Go get a cup of coffee.
This will move your file over to the Mac. Whether Mac application
programs will be able to do anything with the file is another story.
- HBM
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| 376.2 | ST to MAC Disks | WOTVAX::KENT | | Tue Oct 08 1991 11:20 | 11 |
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I sense from the previous reply that MAC disks cannot be read on an ST
or visa-versa.
I have a friend who needs to submit articles to his publisher. He has
an ST the publisher of course has a MAC. Ascii format is OK. Will this
work ? How can we make it work.
Paul K.
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| 376.3 | Lowest Common Denominator = MS-DOS | ULTRA::KINDEL | Bill Kindel @ LTN1 | Tue Oct 08 1991 11:39 | 9 |
| Re .2:
> I have a friend who needs to submit articles to his publisher. He has
> an ST the publisher of course has a MAC. Ascii format is OK. Will this
> work ? How can we make it work.
Go for the "lowest common denominator", which is ASCII text files on
MS-DOS formatted diskettes. It's pointless to try to read/write Mac
disks when Macs commonly have the ability to read/write MS-DOS disks.
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| 376.4 | Ms DOS it is ! | WOTVAX::KENT | | Tue Oct 08 1991 12:06 | 10 |
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Yep that is what I have done.
I formatted a 720k disk on my laptop stuck into the ST. Wrote the file.
Can I confirm that this will be readable on the Mac without any need
for conversion software.
Paul.
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| 376.5 | What you need | NUTELA::CHAD | Chad in Munich at RTO, DTN 865 3976 | Wed Oct 09 1991 06:43 | 16 |
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You will need a Mac with a superdrive (any of the new Macs, some SEs,
SE/30, and some upgraded Mac IIs. mac Plus, many SEs, and most II
(plain Vanilla original IIs) don't have the superdrive. If you can
use HD 1.4 meg floppies you have a superdrive. You then need either
one of the commercial or otherwise available inits / programs on the
mac that allow you to mount such MS-DOS disks. OR You can use
the Mac File Exchange program that comes with the Mac OS disks for
free. This will allow you to read MS DOS disks on the Mac. You just
run the program and then stick in your MS DOS disk. I have done this
a lot. You may need to be careful on CR and LF in the file. Everybody
does it differently.
Chad
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