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OK, Somebody's got to help me this.

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Lifer
I've got 7 PCs happily crunching away, but I also have this older PPC Mac sitting there doing nothing. I've asked before, but I didn't get a response before.

Call me a moron, but I just can't seem to be able to get a working copy of the Mac version of the dnet client. This Mac is an orphan and is not networked. EVERY other computer in the dept. is a PC. No matter what I try doing, whenever I try downloading the Mac client (from a PC on to an MS-DOS formatted disc) it doesn't work. The Mac doesn't seem to like the intermediate step involving the PC. I do have StuffIt Expander installed on the Mac, but it always says the file is corrupt. How do I get around this? (The previous main user had a networked PowerPC laptop that he used with it, and most of the other software is installed off the original CD-ROMs.)

 
As a thought, if it has a CD-ROM drive, you could always burn an ISO-9660 format CD, which is readable on both MAC's and PC's, with the downloaded MAC-Client on it. Of course, you will need someone with a CD-writer and you'll have to consider spending $1 on a cheap CD-R (not all that much really).

As for getting blocks on and off the Mac, I haven't thought of a way of that yet 🙁. Maybe it would be best to format a disk on the MAC, and use a Mac disk reader/writer on the PC - hopefully the disk format will not be changed and the MAC will stay happy.
 
Is there any possibility at all of putting a modem on the MAC?
Not only would this avoid the PC on downloading the program, but would also get around sneakernetting the MAC.
 
Well, not really, because the entire building's phone lines would be incompatible I think.

The IT dept. refuses to network it, too. Although maybe I buy a splitter and run it off the other PC in the same room. I'd had have to figure out how to do that though.
 
If all you need is an uncompressed, ready to install Mac client on a Mac formatted floppy, I can make one of those for you tomorrow. Send a mailing address by PM if that is what it takes to get that PPC monster going.
 
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