plw@rayssdb.ray.com (Paul L. White) (11/21/89)
OK, I give up. What's the secret? My Amiga 2000 w/ Bridgeboard and I had a wrestling match last night... the Amiga won. My goal was to use my download of the PD version of CrossDOS to transform my df1: drive into di1:. Then I planned to access an IBM checkbook program (Quicken) on a 3.5" disk. Well, I found out more about the rad:, ram:, ramdrive.sys, di1:, jlink virtual drives than I ever wanted to know. But I could not execute or read that program from the Bridgeboard. My initial impression from my wrestling match is that it's not possible to do this without buying another IBM compatible 3.5" drive and plugging it into the Bridgeboard. In case I didn't make myself understood, CrossDOS worked exactly as advertised, except that I thought it would also make a disk readable by the Bridgeboard (the documentation said nothing about this, it was just my wishful thinking). The AREAD program successfully copied the programs, but they were also unreadable. Before I fell asleep last night, I thought of a scheme where AWRITE might conceivably do the trick, but in the twilight of unconciousness, many lies are told. (maybe I should use that line in my next book). ====================================================================== Paul White Safety in numbness. ======================================================================
baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke) (11/22/89)
In article <3461@rayssdb.ray.com> plw@rayssdb.ray.com (Paul L. White) writes: >In case I didn't make myself understood, CrossDOS worked exactly as >advertised, except that I thought it would also make a disk readable >by the Bridgeboard (the documentation said nothing about this, it >was just my wishful thinking). The AREAD program successfully copied >the programs, but they were also unreadable. Before I fell asleep >last night, I thought of a scheme where AWRITE might conceivably >do the trick, but in the twilight of unconciousness, many lies are >told. (maybe I should use that line in my next book). > Are you using the /b option on AREAD and AWRITE. This is the "transfer file as a binary file" option. If you leave this off, the default is that AREAD and AWRITE will do the transfers as ASCII files, which is not what you want for programs. Hope this helps :-). Ron Baalke | baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov Jet Propulsion Lab M/S 301-355 | baalke@jems.jpl.nasa.gov 4800 Oak Grove Dr. | Pasadena, CA 91109 |
swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan) (11/23/89)
In article <3461@rayssdb.ray.com> plw@rayssdb.ray.com (Paul L. White) writes:
:OK, I give up. What's the secret?
:
:My Amiga 2000 w/ Bridgeboard and I had a wrestling match last night...
:the Amiga won. My goal was to use my download of the PD version of
:CrossDOS to transform my df1: drive into di1:. Then I planned to
:access an IBM checkbook program (Quicken) on a 3.5" disk.
:
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:In case I didn't make myself understood, CrossDOS worked exactly as
:advertised, except that I thought it would also make a disk readable
:by the Bridgeboard (the documentation said nothing about this, it
:was just my wishful thinking). The AREAD program successfully copied
:the programs, but they were also unreadable. Before I fell asleep
:last night, I thought of a scheme where AWRITE might conceivably
:do the trick, but in the twilight of unconciousness, many lies are
:told. (maybe I should use that line in my next book).
:
:======================================================================
:Paul White
:Safety in numbness.
:======================================================================
AREAD and AWRITE will work fine. Make sure you use the /B switch if
you are transfering binary files. (yeah, isn't that helpful of CBM, they
forgot to tell the original a2088 people about the /b switch. Ha ha,
funny 8-| )
I call my "crossdos" drives a: and b: (original, eh?). Just change the name in the mountlist and mount with that name. So, from my bridge I would type
something like...
AREAD C:DWNLD.ARC A:DOWNLOAD.ARC /B
The C: drive is my fake ibm HD on my Amiga's HD and A: is my crossdos drive
that resides "inside" df0:.
The new file C:DWNLD.ARC should be fine.
Hope this helps.
Joel Swan