Re: Mac/Windows conversions

Hi Jennifer,

For situations such as what you're describing, I use MacDrive 98 by Media4
Productions (www.media4.com). It integrates into the Windows Explorer shell,
and allows seamless access to Mac-formatted floppies, ZIPs, and CDs (as well
as other media, I'm sure). It can also format floppies and ZIPs in Mac
format, so there's less risk of losing data should you have to send
something from a Windows machine to a Mac (they seem to be only able to get
our DOS 8.3 names, not the Long File Names Windows95/98/ME and NT4/2000
use). They have a newer version now available, MacDrive2000 which integrates
with the newest Windows OSs (ME/2000) as well as the older ones. You can buy
it direct from them, or in stores (sometimes cheaper), and the cost is very
reasonable (less than one might expect) -- I'm not giving the prices just in
case that would violate some of the rules, but it's less than some competing
products. Considering what it does and allows you to do, I highly recommend
it! Sure, there are other products that claim to do the same or more,
sometimes for less cost, but I've found MacDrive to be one of the best and
well worth it's price.

Good luck,
Kehvan M. Zydhek


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jennifer Johns, Nubble Designs" <jennifer(at)nubbledesigns.net>
To: <hwg-business(at)hwg.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 29, 2000 17:49
Subject: Mac/Windows conversions


> I just got 2 new clients, both of whom use Macs.  I use Windows.  While I
> realize I can share documents via e-mail text, one of my new clients is
very
> "computer-illiterate" and that would be asking too much from them.  So
they
> handed me a disk with their information, but I have no way of getting this
> information (unless my husband remembers to take the disk to work with him
> and converts it there!).  Shy of having my husband do this for me every
time
> I get updates from my Mac clients, is there a good conversion program
anyone
> can recommend that would allow me to put a Mac diskette into my disk drive
> and get the files?  The less expensive, the better.
>
> Thanks,
> Jennifer
>
>
> Jennifer Johns
> Nubble Designs
> www.nubbledesigns.net
> jennifer(at)nubbledesigns.net
>
>

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