bill@sigma.UUCP (WIlliam Swan) (07/07/87)
(I ought to know the answer to this one - but don't!)
I have a disk in Apple II CP/M format, and need to transfer it
to a Kaypro.
I have occasional access to a Kaypro (it actually belongs to my
mother, who needs the software and is 1000 kilometers away), and
none at all to an Apple.
Is there a utility that will read an Apple II CP/M disk on a
Kaypro? Are the formats even that compatible?
All pointers gladly accepted..
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William Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!sigma!billsamlb@well.UUCP (07/09/87)
No can do -- Apple uses an entirely non-standard disk controller to
write the disks. There _is_ a hardware mod for PCs which will let you read
Apple disks, but otherwise, sorrreeee...
If you send me the Apple disk, I could upload the files and send them
to you via UUCP mail, or you could find someone locally (Call A.P.P.L.E.,
maybe) with a CP/M Apple, and arrange to take your Kaypro over there with a
null modem cable and push 'em over a hardware line . . .
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Apples *record* data differently from cp/m and ms/dos disk controllers, and there's no way the Kaypro's hardware can be made to read or write a disk from an Apple disk controller. For 100+ cp/m formats and ms/dos formats, there are format-to-format copy programs. Specifically for the Kaypro, Plu*Perfect Systems has MULTICOPY, which runs on Kaypros with a TurboRom. It supports direct use of foreign formats as well as file-copying capability. UniForm and MediaMaster are other file-copy utilities. But for Apple <--> Kaypro, the best thing to do is hook up the two machines with communications software and upload/download the files. You'll need one communications program for each machine -- eg MEX for Kaypro, AsciiExpress for Apple. --bridger