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.. -- William Swan {ihnp4,decvax,allegra,...}!uw-beaver!tikal!sigma!bill
samlb@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 . . . -- Sam'l Bassett, Semantic Engineer -- My words & ideas are for sale! 34 Oakland Ave., San Anselmo CA 94960; (415) 454-7282 UUCP: {...known world...}!hplabs OR ptsfa OR lll-crg!well!samlb; Compuserve: 71735,1776; WU Easylink ESL 6284-3034; MCI SBassett
bridger%rcc@RAND-UNIX.ARPA.UUCP (07/09/87)
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