mknox@EMX.UTEXAS.EDU (Margaret H. Knox) (09/16/88)
A friend with a TANDY COCO (5.25 diskettes) needs to exchange diskettes with an IBM-PC. Anyone know of a PD (or reasonable commercial) package to do such? On a related note: Does anyone remember offhand a magazine article or the like giving the disk/file structure of MS-DOS diskettes (preferrably both 5.25 and 3.5"). tnx
jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) (09/21/88)
In article <8809160230.AA22192@emx.utexas.edu>, mknox@EMX.UTEXAS.EDU (Margaret H. Knox) writes: > > A friend with a TANDY COCO (5.25 diskettes) needs to exchange diskettes > with an IBM-PC. Anyone know of a PD (or reasonable commercial) package > to do such? I believe there is a program in the OS-9 SIG on CompuServe that will handle MS-DOSoid floppies. Southeast Media (the folks who put out *68 Micro Journal*) also sell some utilities for that purpose. If you are running some version of D.P. Johnson's SDISK3 device driver, then you can buy MSF from Clearbrook. MSF is an MS-DOS file manager which you can use with MS-DOS floppies the way you'd use RBF with OS-9 floppies. There may be RSDOS programs that do what you want, but I don't know of them. (Never had the urge to find out.) Disclaimer: I've not used any of the above, nor am I associated with the people responsible. James Jones
leonard@bucket.UUCP (Leonard Erickson) (09/22/88)
In article <8809160230.AA22192@emx.utexas.edu> mknox@EMX.UTEXAS.EDU (Margaret H. Knox) writes:
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<A friend with a TANDY COCO (5.25 diskettes) needs to exchange diskettes
<with an IBM-PC. Anyone know of a PD (or reasonable commercial) package
<to do such?
The program you want is Xenocopy. It is commercial, but cheap. I've seen it
advertised in the magazines and heard CoCo-types recomend it (it runs on the
MS-DOS machine).
--
Leonard Erickson ...!tektronix!reed!percival!bucket!leonard
CIS: [70465,203]
"I used to be a hacker. Now I'm a 'microcomputer specialist'.
You know... I'd rather be a hacker."jec@nesac2.UUCP (John Carter ATLN SADM) (09/25/88)
In article <737@mcrware.UUCP>, jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) writes: > In article <8809160230.AA22192@emx.utexas.edu>, mknox@EMX.UTEXAS.EDU (Margaret H. Knox) writes: ] ] ] ] A friend with a TANDY COCO (5.25 diskettes) needs to exchange diskettes ] ] with an IBM-PC. Anyone know of a PD (or reasonable commercial) package ] ] to do such? ] ] I believe there is a program in the OS-9 SIG on CompuServe that will handle ] MS-DOSoid floppies. Southeast Media (the folks who put out *68 Micro Journal*) ] also sell some utilities for that purpose. ] ] If you are running some version of D.P. Johnson's SDISK3 device driver, then ] you can buy MSF from Clearbrook. MSF is an MS-DOS file manager which you can ] use with MS-DOS floppies the way you'd use RBF with OS-9 floppies. ] ] There may be RSDOS programs that do what you want, but I don't know of them. ] (Never had the urge to find out.) ] 'Cocoutil' is available from Mark Data Products - it runs on the MSDOS machine and can read/write RSDOS disks (NOT OS9). It can also do CR/LF conversions on the files. There was also a group of programs published (in RAINBOW magazine, I think) that allow a Coco to create (format, copy to/from) SINGLE-sided, 8 sector/track MSDOS disks (ancient, but supported under all versions of MSDOS). Both of the above work, each has its own features and limitations. Cocoutil is easier to use (menu-driven), the other one is always available on the Coco. -- USnail: John Carter, AT&T, Atlanta RWC, 3001 Cobb Parkway, Atlanta GA 30339 Video: ...att!nesac2!jec Voice: 404+951-4642 The machine belongs to the company. The opinions are mine.
jmj@mhuxu.UUCP (J. M. Johnson) (09/27/88)
In article <8809160230.AA22192@emx.utexas.edu>, mknox@EMX.UTEXAS.EDU (Margaret H. Knox) writes: > A friend with a TANDY COCO (5.25 diskettes) needs to exchange diskettes > with an IBM-PC. Anyone know of a PD (or reasonable commercial) package > to do such? You might try some back issues of 80 Micro magazine. It was a Tandy dedicated publication with good information on the complete line of obscure Tandy operating systems. In the past year it changed to an MS-DOS format and then disappeared altogether. Many of the advertisers in the magazine are probably still around and may be able to help you. -- :-{) Remember, no matter where you go, there you are! (Pig Killer) (}-: J. M. Johnson, AT&T Bell Laboratories, Reading, PA ...!att!mhuxu!jmj
crds@ncoast.UUCP (Glenn A. Emelko) (10/03/88)
Well, I just finished writing a preliminary file transfer utility set for
my IBM which does three things:
1. Allows an IBM/PC to take a directory on a COCO Disk, showing the file
sizes (in grans and bytes) as well as the mode and type of the file,
all in a nice MSDOSish looking list (similar to what DIR looks like).
2. Allows an IBM/PC to read one or more files from a COCO Disk.
(note that the above two functions support wildcards in std. IBM form)
3. Allows an IBM/PC to write a file (ONE at a time, no wildcards) to a
COCO disk; this also requires you to set the type and mode for the
file storage on the COCO disk (hence the reason for no wildcarding).
All of these utilities are written in Microsoft C (V4.0) and are commented.
I also have commented machine language source for the original directory
function, which I wrote about two years ago. I patterned the C after the
assembly code, and it very closely follows in organization (in fact many
of the comments are direct copies). These are all executed as dos commands.
By the way: This file transfer utility is NOT for OS/9 disks, it's for
the color disk basic compatable disks. I believe that the code is solid,
and all of it was originally authored by myself, so I now declare that the
only restrictions that I'll place on it is that it not be distributed for
any form of compensation (of course, without prior arrangement :-> )
If you've got any interest in these, maybe we can post them to the network
(possibly under comp.sources.misc). Hope this is what you're looking for.
Glenn A. Emelko
crds@ncoast