Re: OT-saving to a mac

>OK, Mac users, help me out here:-) I have downloads on some of my sites,
>and someone asked me if there's a way to download from home, save to a
>floppy, and transfer to a Mac.

A windows machine at "home" I take it? A mac will read a dos formatted
disk, so that parts not a problem as long as the destination machine has a
floppy drive.

>IMac's don't have a floppy drive, do they?

Not unless you hook one up to it. (USB, etc.)

> Is there a way they can send themselves an attachment and open it
>up in a Mac? I'm thinking PowerPoint files. This is for an education
>site. Thanks!

The downloaded files in question are powerpoint? In order to view them on
the Mac you'd need a mac version of powerpoint that wasn't .x behind the
one that created the files. (I assume.) Opening the file isn't so much a
mac/windows question as just having the software period. If you wanted a
powerpoint presentation to be available to *anyone*, you could do a "save
as web" type thing from powerpoint, and compress the result into a ZIP
file, and possibly use Aladin Stuffit software (.sit) as well, in case a
mac user doesn't have anything to handle winzip files.

>Or, how do they just download and save in general on a Mac?

I'm guessing viewing is the problem, not saving. You can download a windows
file to a mac and not get much farther than that, unless you have software
on the Mac to handle it.

I hope some of this helps.

~Nathan Lyle
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