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Apple Macs
26-11-2007 10:12 AM
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I have sent a friend in Canada a copy of an old Windows 95 programmme which I use all the time - a specialised database. It runs perfectly well in Vista and XP and is very simple. I sent the files in a WinZip file.
My friend, however, has a MAC and cannot open the zip file. Is this normal and is there any way around it on a MAC ? Even if he could open the zip file, would he then even be able to run the old .exe programme on his MAC ?
Whatever happened to standarisation ?
Any comments appreciated.
Re: Apple Macs
26-11-2007 10:20 AM
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Macs use a Unix based OS now (previously they used their own OS) which is not compatible with windows.
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26-11-2007 10:21 AM
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This would be perfectly normal and without installing a Windows emulator or by being far cleverer than I, then I imagine that there would be no way of opening a winzip files as, unless I'm being rather silly, there would be no way of opening such a file on a Mac based OS.
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26-11-2007 10:44 AM
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TVM all the same.
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26-11-2007 11:16 AM
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Hope that helps,
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27-11-2007 12:46 PM
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27-11-2007 1:41 PM
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But can anyone tell me about CDs ? If I copy some photos (*.jpg) from a Windows XP machine onto a CD, will a MAC be able to read the CD format ? I suspect not.
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27-11-2007 3:32 PM
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This should actually work. assuming that the copying to CD process doesn't windosify the files then the MAC user should be able to open them as jpg is a file type compatible with Mac.
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27-11-2007 4:16 PM
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Old Bill Gates gets such a bad press, but the one thing he did achieve was a reasonable level of standardisation across platforms. I actually remember the early days of MS DOS versus CPM. Linux and Apple (I think the MAC is Unix based now ?) may well be better, safer operating systems and they may have more sexy hardware, but I wonder if the industry would have got as far as it has if it had been carved up between several players.
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27-11-2007 5:18 PM
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and yes mac is now unix based
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27-11-2007 5:47 PM
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Quote yes mac is now unix based
BSD I believe
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28-11-2007 9:10 AM
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28-11-2007 8:28 PM
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If the Mac is an older PowerPC processor model (i.e. G3, G4 or G5), then you can install Microsoft's Virtual PC to run Windows 95 or later in emulation within OS X (or OS 9 for earlier versions of Virtual PC).
Using either of the above methods, Macs can run Windows (and therefore PC .exe applications).
Also, Mac OS X 10.3 or later has built-in support for creating and uncompressing ZIP files, whether created on Windows or other Macs. No extra software is required, like it is on Windows.
Macs can read pretty much all standard file formats common to Windows users (JPEG, PDF, TIFF, EPS, BMP, AIFF, MP3, MPEG etc, etc).
Never before have Macs been as compatible with Windows than they are now - and things are likely to get even better.
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