I'm running a PowerBook 190. The files are mainly .txt and .doc files. I'm running Windows XP Home on the PC end. What I'm trying to do is move my writing projects off my PC onto my PowerBook so I can carry them around with me.
Word on both would help. Or send it as email in plain text to yourself. Or transfer from a website as html. PITA otherwise.
-- Adrian
Mac OS 8 has PC Exchange, IIRC. Together with a couple of extensions (installed by default), any Mac can read any PC/DOS/whatever formatted removable media (as long as it fits in a drive on the Mac). It's dead easy to read DOS formatted floppies on your Mac - just insert it into the floppy drive!
Word 98 and newer are all very good at being cross-platform compatible with their Windows counterparts, but they are also PowerPC-only. Documents created in both places can be read on the opposite platform with a minimum of fuss. Word 5 is not quite so capable. Word 6 (Office 6) was awful, and if you are running it then I'm sorry for you! If it turns out that your 68k version of Word has a hard time reading documents created by newer PC versions of Word, you might need a translator tool. MacLink (and MacLinkPlus) did some good file translations in it's time, but I don't believe it's forward compatible with newer Word documents. In that case, you can probably open the document on the PC and save it as an older version file format. That will give you better compatibility, but if you use some features of the new format files, you'll lose them when you re-save (of course, you'd lose them anyway the second you open them on the PB 190...).
While we're on the subject, this is a neat story from a Mac Word v6 Microsoft developer:
<http://blogs.msdn.com/rick_schaut/archive/2004/02/26/80193.aspx>
Peace, Drew
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