dowst@JPL-VLSI.ARPA.UUCP (03/25/87)
The UNIFORM program allows a PC to read files from over 60 different CP/M machines. The program is shareware and is available from some PC BBSs. I can dig up the address of the publisher if you need it. Henry Dowst KA6KNJ
ari@well.UUCP (03/27/87)
In article <KPETERSEN.12289323272.BABYL@SIMTEL20.ARPA> dowst@JPL-VLSI.ARPA wri tes: >The UNIFORM program allows a PC to read files from over 60 different CP/M >machines. The program is shareware and is available from some PC BBSs. >I can dig up the address of the publisher if you need it. > >Henry Dowst KA6KNJ UNIFORM, by Matchpoint(?) Solutions in Illinois, is very much NOT shareware (although some other program MAY be). Despite that, it is absolutely the best program in the genre,allowing the user to not only read/write/format some 200 (not 60) CP/M disk formats, but to put the actual CP/M disk in the PC and work off of it as though it were a PC disk. The company also markets a board to read Apple & Northstar disks, and a third board that can run 8" and 3-1/2" and AT disks off of an XT (also an AT). They make good equipment, and have good support. Their phone number is (815) 756-3411. The program generally sells for around $50 (the boards around $150).
kevinb@crash.UUCP (03/31/87)
I am looking for a program that will preferably not be unneccessarily BIOS-
dependent, but will copy differing soft-sectored and/or hard-sectored disks.
This program by preference be some sort of program that assigns a logical drive
with a physical drive and a non-standard format, ie if I have 2 disks, I should
be able to say disk C = Kaypro, physical disk B (01). It should also be able
to be loaded and left, so that I could run programs like NEWSWEEP to go between
the disks. I assume all this would take relocatable modules to work effectively. A big preference would be something to go between 2 or more disk formats, as I am the intermediary between a Kaypro in Bath, England and a AMD Super Six
system running a newsletter here in San Diego, CA., due to having both 8" and
5" drives on my system. One further note: the ability to add disk types based
on either analysis or examination of the disk specs would be a real bonus, as I doubt many commercial programs have CCS 8"/5", AMD 8", Superbrain 5", etc.
disk types. Anybody know of such a program to reccommend, and could I get an
idea of price, quality, dealers, etc.? The primary application would be to swap
information and development work between S-100 and odd no-longer-supported
CP/M-based computers.
TIA,
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