ldc-n@oliveb.olivetti.com (Lee Data Corp. Networking) (02/06/90)
I would like to know how to copy Amiga files stored on ibm pc foppy to A500 floppy. I have an A500 computer with two floppies and 1 Mbytes Ram. Tanks in advance. (Please E-mail)
per@iesd.auc.dk (Per Langfeldt Hagen) (02/07/90)
I move quite a bit of software between our Suns an my Amiga. What I do is: I use FTP from a PC, with NFS, and this way I have my files on 3.5 inch 720Kb ibm pc format. To move the files from pc format to Amy-format, using my Amy, I have used Dos-2-Dos, which serves it's role, but I think, what is more comfortably is to use the CrossDos filesystem. CrossDos is a filesystem which supports 720kb pc format and 720kb Atari format. The reason I say it is more comfortably to use CrossDos, is it is a mountable filesystem. When the filesystem is mounted you can access your pc files with your favorite shell. (instead of using a closed and awkward system). You will find a tryware version of CrossDos on Fish-disk 240, which is unable to write to pc/Atari disks. I have used this for a period and I like it! (Unfortually I have not seen a danish dealer for it yet! May be threre will be one in a not so distant future [:-( ). I have included the discription of CrossDos Fred Fish describes it. You will be able to find the above mensioned Fish-disk at etana.funet.fi (128.214.1.1), in /amiga/fish/ff240 . - Per CONTENTS OF DISK 240 -------------------- CrossDOS A "tryware" version of a mountable MS-DOS file system for the Amiga. This is a software product that allows you to read and write MS-DOS/PC-DOS and Atari ST formatted disks (Version 2.0 or higher) directly from AmigaDOS. This tryware version is a "readonly" version, which does not allow any writes to the disk. A fully functional version is available for a very reasonable price from CONSULTRON. Version 3.02, binary only. Author: CONSULTRON, Leonard Poma |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | ___ ___ ___ | | / / / / / Aalborg University, Denmark | | /__/ /__ /__/ ARPA per@iesd.auc.dk{...} | | / /___ / \ USENET alias {...}!mcvax!dkuug!auc!iesd!per | | | | Per L. Hagen, Revlingbakken 73, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark, Europe | | International | +45 98 18 40 24 | | Telephone: -------------|----------------- Opinions are my own! | | National | 98 18 40 24 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | ___ ___ ___ | | / / / / / Aalborg University, Denmark | | /__/ /__ /__/ ARPA per@iesd.auc.dk{...} | | / /___ / \ USENET alias {...}!mcvax!dkuug!auc!iesd!per | | | | Per L. Hagen, Revlingbakken 73, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark, Europe | | International | +45 98 18 40 24 | | Telephone: -------------|----------------- Opinions are my own! | | National | 98 18 40 24 | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ -- |~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| | ___ ___ ___ | | / / / / / Aalborg University, Denmark | | /__/ /__ /__/ ARPA per@iesd.auc.dk{...} |
root@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Privileged Account) (02/13/90)
In article <PER.90Feb7141227@iesd.iesd.auc.dk> per@iesd.auc.dk (Per Langfeldt Hagen) writes: >CrossDos is a filesystem which supports 720kb pc format and 720kb >Atari format. The reason I say it is more comfortably to use CrossDos, >is it is a mountable filesystem. When the filesystem is mounted you >can access your pc files with your favorite shell. (instead of using a >closed and awkward system). > >You will find a tryware version of CrossDos on Fish-disk 240, which is >unable to write to pc/Atari disks. I have used this for a period and I >like it! Well, everybody who is talking about CrossDos so much, should watch comp.sources.amiga and comp.binaries.amiga this week. I just sent my own Messy FileSystem Handler (MSH) to Tad Gay. It has two significant advantages over CrossDos: it is a read/write version, and you get the source (so if there is a problem with it, you can fix it yourself). So, finally I am going to be famous. :-) Oh well, I already _was_ famous, wasn't I? :-) ovb11@cs.kun.nl (Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert)