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- From: ELA95CSH@shef.ac.uk (Chris)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: pc format to Amiga
- Date: 23 Feb 1996 17:13:28 GMT
- Organization: Electrical Eng, University of Sheffield , UK
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- In article <4gj7gf$b6a@server05.icaen.uiowa.edu>, mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu
- says...
-
- >>> 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.
-
- I can attest to messdos being just as good (in the old days when I had an
- A500). Messdos was also easier to install than crossdos, etc.. And also used
- df0: as the peecee device? (very convinient)
-
- As a bit of advice, you can move files bigger than 720k (v.useful), by using a
- splitter on the PC, the the "join" command in Amiga Shell/CLI. Two
- pc/amiga(/unix) splitters are available on the Aminet, and have a splitter &
- joiner commands for each platform :) . Although the "Join" command is
- probably over 10 times faster, for some reason! (on an Hd)
-
- --
- From Christopher Handley
- Email: ela95csh@sheffield.ac.uk
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