Re: FLASH: MAC zip PC zip

[Frederico]

On 8/3/00 8:04 PM Mountain Time, Daniel Guerrier via

dan_guerrieryahoo [dot] com

, said:


>Is there any way to read a illustrator or photoshop

>files saved on a MAC formatted zip disk on a PC with a

>zip disk?


If you can or want to afford it, there is relatively inexpensive utility 

software available to translate Mac on Wintel; however, the 

quicker/easier method is often to either:


a) ask the Mac owner to place the files on a PC-formatted disk

b) ask the Mac owner to erase and reformat the existing disk to PC format 

using either Iomega Tools or Finder: Special: Erase: ProDOS; then adding 

the files back to the disk

c) reformat the disk yourself to ProDOS, return it to the Mac owner, and 

claim it came to you blank with an innocent look on your face


TIP for Mac Owners: Leave your trading Zips and Orbs formatted in ProDOS; 

you and your Mac brethren will always be able to read either format, so 

no huge advantages exist in keeping it as Mac; this way you won't 

irritate your Wintel friends who's machines do not come with bundled File 

Exchange features.


Frederico



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