Apple Power Macintosh 7300 series - PC Compatibility Card - Manual (Page 72)

With Macintosh PC Exchange, you can see, move, and copy PC documents as
icons in the Mac OS. However, you may not be able to open every kind of PC
file in the Mac OS. If you can’t open a file or if the file is not displayed
properly, try one of the following:
m Try opening the file using a different application program.
m Translate the document into a different file format using a file translation
utility.
m If your PC program has an Export feature, use it to save the document in a
different file format.
m Use a PC–Mac OS translation utility.
To gain access to files in a PC drive container from the Mac OS, follow
these steps:
1 In the Finder, double-click the drive container to open it.
The drive container appears on the Mac OS desktop as one of the following
disk icons:
2 Double-click the container’s disk icon.
The icon opens and you have access to the files inside it.
Note: If the PC is running, you can copy files from the drive container to the
Mac OS, but you can’t add anything to the drive container or change any files
in it. If you want to add or change files from the Mac OS environment, you
must shut down the PC.
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Drive container file
Mounted drive container