Re: macintosh to ibm

Otto Prytz (otto.prytz@kri.uio.no)
Mon, 26 Jun 1995 09:30:19 +0200

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Question:
> Does anybody know how to convert a text file written in macintosh
> into a dos text file? The problem is with the accented letters,
> which come out wrong when reading, from an IBM, a file saved as only
> text in macintosh.

Answer:
>The Mac comes equipped with software to do this called the Apple File
>Exchange (AFE) which should already be on the hard dosk of your Mac.

My question:
What if you haven't got a Mac, but an IBM compatible PC? The reason why one
wants to convert text from Mac to IBM format, I gather, is that one wants to
read it on one*s own IBM PC.

Otto Prytz <otto.prytz@kri.uio.no>
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