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From: Florentine Audet
Subject: file exchange
Date: 12 Dec 2000 08:46:33
Message: <3A362B81.3B700A45@sympatico.ca>
My name is Alex...

How can I exchange a file
from an old McIntosh (Mac II vi)
to a Pc Pentium_II...?!?!
I want some photoshop files
on my harddisc (Mac II vi )
to be on a web site on Pc !

thanx


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From: Jerry
Subject: Re: file exchange
Date: 12 Dec 2000 11:09:19
Message: <jerry-E7D177.08091912122000@news.povray.org>
In article <3A362B81.3B700A45@sympatico.ca>, flo### [at] sympaticoca 
wrote:
>How can I exchange a file
>from an old McIntosh (Mac II vi)
>to a Pc Pentium_II...?!?!
>I want some photoshop files
>on my harddisc (Mac II vi )
>to be on a web site on Pc !

Two parts to this:

1. If you want to put this on a web site, you need to choose an image 
format. Usually, you want either JPEG or GIF files, or possibly PNG 
files, for web page images. For raytraced images and 
photographic-quality images, you'll usually want either JPEG or 
(possibly) PNG. Most web browsers are not going to be able to display 
straight Photoshop files.

You can convert images to JPEG or GIF using most versions of Photoshop; 
if you have an older version of Photoshop, one very good choice of image 
converters is a shareware program called "GraphicConverter". You can 
find it at http://www.lemkesoft.com/

2. To transfer the file,

a) if the Mac is on the Internet and the web server is running an FTP 
server, use Fetch or Anarchy to upload the files to the web server.

b) if the Mac is on the Internet and the web server is not running an 
FTP server, put an FTP server on the Mac, such as NetPresenz 
(http://www.stairways.com/); then, go to the web server and use the FTP 
client there to connect to the Macintosh, downloading the files.

c) But if you have access to both computers, just use a floppy disk. 
Format a floppy for PC, put it in your Mac, and copy the JPEG/GIF/PNG 
files to the floppy. Then, put the floppy in your PC and copy them off 
the disk. (This may or may not work, depending on the age of your Mac's 
operating system. But you can upgrade to OS 7.5.5 for free if you can 
download it from Apple's web site--it is big--and OS 7.5.5 can do this.) 
If you are using an older Mac OS, make sure you name the files with no 
more than 8 characters plus 3 characters for the extensions (example: 
penguin.jpg, spring.gif, floral.png).

And make sure you put the extensions on the files on the Macintosh, 
before you copy them to the PC; it will make things easier.


Jerry
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From: ingo
Subject: Re: file exchange
Date: 12 Dec 2000 11:30:13
Message: <Xns9008B7517seed7@povray.org>
d) HFVExplorer is available again. Install it on the PC, so it can read 
Mac floppy and CD's.

http://gamma.nic.fi/~lpesonen/HFVExplorer/

Ingo

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