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- From: a95hanne@ida.his.se (Hannu Nevalainen)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.hardware
- Subject: Re: Dowloading Amiga utilities form PC. HELP!!!!
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- Date: 30 Mar 1996 00:33:55 GMT
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- > +On 28-Mar-96 23:09:30 Jeremy Nixon
- > +<jeremyn@well.sf.ca.us>
- > +wrote about "Re: Dowloading Amiga utilities form PC. HELP!!!!"
- > +in "comp.sys.amiga.hardware"...
-
- > GM953 (gm953@aol.com) wrote:
- >> Now that I've downloaded a driver formy new CD rom, hopw do I transfer
- >> the files from my PC to my Amiga.
-
- >> I have CrossDos in W3.0 but I'm having some problems.
-
- > What sort of problems would those be? You really have to be more specific
- > when you describe your problem.
-
- >> If anyone can shed some light....I would greatly appreciate it.
-
- > I might be able to if I knew what the problem was.
-
- >> Thanks
- > Don't thank me yet.
-
- > Jeremy
- > jeremyn@injersey.com
- > @well.com
-
- Not beeing very nice here, jeremy!
- ---
-
- To transfer a small amount of files via disk to the Amiga:
- (There is many ways to deal with a _largeánumber_ of, or huge, files)
-
- 1) You need a DD disk. i.e. a standard Amiga-disk, same as a PC 720K disk.
- Do NOT attempt to use HD-disks, you will eventually run into trouble
- of some kind. You may format such a disk to 720K by putting tape over
- the extra hole, but many dos-versions wont allow you to reformat it to
- 1.44MB after that. (Even if you remove the tape)
-
- 2) The disk needs to be formatted for MS-DOS.
- First of all make sure the "mfm.device+CrossDOSFS" is mounted:
- 1> mount PC0: ; this _may_ produce some error telling that is
- ; "already mounted". Other errors should be examined.
-
- Then: Either type
- 1> SYS:System/Format <NIL: DRIVE PC0: NAME old_dos NOICONS
- ^^^^^
- in Amiga-shell, or
- C:\> format A: /F:720 /U /V:old_dos /AUTOTEST
- ^^^^^^^^^
- at the msdos prompt. The ^^^-ed stuff makes formatting start
- IMMEDIATELY; if you don't want that, *excludeáthem*.
- I recommend using msdos for formatting, as CrossDOS will
- accept that disk happily; you can't always be sure about it the other
- way.
-
- 3) Move the file to the disk on the pc, with xcopy (or copy)
- C:\> xcopy file.ext a:\
- (type "help <command_of_interest>" for some help on commands in msdos)
-
- 4) copy the files from the disk into your amiga with:
- 1> copy pc0:#? "" ; to copy them to current dir.
-
- Done.
-
- Need more help ? ;)
-
- /Hannu E.K. Nevalainen, Amiga since '85. /*á1996-03-30á@00:09áCETá*/
- >> Inform yourself... http://www.amiga.de/ /*áThorá2.22á[1642]á*/
- <sb> rexx:random(55 tags) -> "Pentium"
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