Material Editor Problem

[physcostealth]

When I edit a model in maya and I have to apply the texture, the image file is naturally just blank because of the fact that it is of Windows origin (.dds and I work on a mac). This tends to make applying the texture difficult as I have to do it blindly. Do you have a way of seeing the texture or using the regular non-windows image to do all the lambert stuff and then just change the texture files to the .dds before you export?