Mac to PC conversion software?

[JQ Johnson]

There are at least 2 commercial products that allow a Windows PC to read a 
Mac filesystem, typically on a removable disk such as a floppy or Zip disk. 
They aren't as well known as they should be:  I'd say that if you have a PC 
as a micro support station (e.g. a help desk or even a reference desk) it's 
an almost essential utility.

I use MacDrive, http://www.media4.com, and love it.  I think MacOpener 
http://www.dataviz.com/ has a somewhat larger market share.  As has been 
noted, reading the filesystem is only half the battle; you still have to 
convert file formats.  I've found that this is seldom a problem for me (MS 
Word opens most word processing.  PSP opens most graphics.  Quicktime or 
Windows Media Player open most a/v, etc.), but you might want to consider 
DataVis Conversions Plus, which combines MacOpener with a suite of format 
conversion utilities.


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