Lee.Sailer@CMU-CS-C.ARPA (04/02/85)
I agree with those folks who recommend Uniform and Media Master as good file transfer programs. I have used them both on Morrow, Rainbow, and Osborne-1 (CP/M on all three) and have rarely had any difficulties. There is one important difference between these two products that might help someone out there choose between them. Media Master - MM is all menu driven. You do your work from within MM. For example, I can tell my rainbow that drive A: is Kaypro II, B: is IBM 1.0ss, and C: is IBM 2.0ss, and then use menu commands to list directories, move files from one disk to another, erase files, etc. I can even format new disks. Uniform - On the Morrow MD3, I can only reassign drive B:. For MSDOS<->CPM transfers, it uses menues like MM, except that I cannot go from one alien format to another. I always have to go thru Morrow format. Uniform - On the other hand, if Uniforms is used to tell the Morrowthat drive B: is a CPM format, say Osborne or Kaypro, then the user can exit back to CPM, but the alien disk format sticks. You can edit files on B:alien.dsk, run .com files, use sweep to move stuff around, etc. (I guess Uniform patches the OS.) In short, if you move files from one alien format to another, MM is the choice. If you usually use files from one alien format on your base machine, then I think Uniform is more appropriate. By the way, Media Master on many CP/M machines is only about $30. -------