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- From: m.hendry@dial.pipex.com (Mathew Hendry)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc
- Subject: Re: pc format to Amiga
- Date: Fri, 23 Feb 96 18:37:16
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- Michael T Pins (mtpins@icaen.uiowa.edu) wrote:
- : 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.
-
- CrossDOS was first included as a standard OS feature with WorkBench 2.1, not
- 3.0.
-
- -- Mat.
-