"Cynthia_A._Burnett.Sunnyvale"@XEROX.COM (12/19/87)
looking for a way to convert CPM files to MS-DOS can anyone help?
bridger%rcc@RAND-UNIX.ARPA (Bridger Mitchell) (12/21/87)
DosDisk -- a MS-DOS Disk Emulator for CP/M -- has just been completed. It may do more, or less, than what you need, depending... DosDisk runs on CP/M 2.2 or 3 systems that have a "modern" bios that can support foreign disk formats. Currently, it is preconfigured for Kaypro with Turborom or QPM, Morrow MD3 and MD11, ON!, Ampro LittleBoard, Xeros 820-I with Plus-2 rom, and Commodore C128. The kit version, for assembly-language buffs, can be configured for other supporting bioses. Unlike file-transfer programs such as Uniform and MediaMaster, DosDisk allows cp/m programs to use the pc disk *directly* -- i.e. you can run WordStar, dBase, ... on files on the pc disk, no copying is needed. Effectively, the pc disk becomes a cp/m disk in a cp/m computer. If you don't have a suitable bios, or if you need only to copy files, Uniform, MediaMaster or one of the CP/M public domain transfer utilities may be what you want. If you want to use the CP/M disk on an MS-DOS computer, Uniform and other companies have similar MS-DOS utilities. A DosDisk announcement should be forthcoming to this list shortly. --bridger mitchell
GUBBINS@RADC-TOPS20.ARPA (Gern) (12/29/87)
Yes. In the Zenith Z-100 world which contains both an 8085 and a 8088, there is a ZCPM program that either emulates CPM from the command line to run CP/M programs or converts them to run under MSDOS directly. I think it uses the 8085 secretly, but programs using the NEC V20 are avaiable to perform in almost the same way. The answer is - it can be done. I don't know which way you prefer or if there are PD solutions. Cheers, Gern -------