Daniel Keller wrote:
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>App's: My office machines are all PC's (yeah, yeah....), and I need
>transfer-ability. The Duo's dock has a 10BaseT card, as do my PC's. Best
>bets on WP programs (the PC's run W98, Word97, etc.).
Using the floppy drive in your dock is certainly the easiest way to
transfer information from a mac to a wintel machine. Most of the Mac word
processor programs (full versions) will allow you to save in a MS-DOS Word
format. I did have some problems using Word 6 on my duo and Windows-based
Word 7. I had to save my duo work as Word 5.1 for Windows-Word 7 to read
it.
Of course if you're dealing with huge graphics files, using floppies would
be a little tedious, but you mentioned only word processing, email, and
maybe a few pages you saved from your web surfing. If you do want to
transfer large files, a SCSI zip drive should work the same way -- just
format it for Windows, which the Mac will read and write to.
I'm a freelance editor and I transferred book manuscripts back and forth
for a long time before I finally just sold my Windows machines because they
were so frustrating to use.
fritz
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