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- From: mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu (Michael T Pins)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: pc format to Amiga
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 02:07:11 GMT
- Organization: Iowa Computer Aided Engineering Network, University of Iowa
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- koren@hpsrk.fc.hp.com (Steve Koren) writes:
-
-
- >> I download amiga softs on Internet thanks to a Pc, but the Pc formated
- >> disks can`t be read by the Amiga.
-
- >They can. Under >=OS3.0 you can just mount PC0: and read it as if it
- >was a native floppy (modulo the 8.3 single case nonsense). Of course
- >you may have to limit yourself to 720 K floppies if you don't have a
- >1.76 drive on your Amiga.
-
- Or, if you're still running 2.0, just grab a copy of messydos and install
- it. Works just as well as CrossDos (which is what's included with 3.0) and
- it's free.
-
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