Subject: Reliable PC <-> Mac floppy-free document tranfers

From: [email-masked] (Mike Roch)
Date: Sat, 9 Jul 1994 16:16:18 +0000

We run a system that has both Macs and PC's connected by CAP and PC-NFS 
respectively to a Sun/Auspex NFS environment. 

PC users mount their Unix home directories via PC-NFS and use Pine on Unix
for email. Mac users mount their Unix home directories via CAP and use
Eudora on Mac for email. 

Mac -> PC document transfer seems much easier than PC -> Mac, mainly due to 
the way in which Mac resource forks are handled. Excel on Mac refuses to 
open PC Excel spreadsheets MIME mailed Pine->Eudora or saved via PC-NFS 
and read via CAP. Resediting the file to fix Type/Creator does not seem 
to fool Excel.

Does anyone with a similar environment have a tried and tested regime for 
passing documents from PC <-> Mac via shared directories and/or MIME ?

Mike

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