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CrossDOS
Version 3.07
January 7th, 1990
We at CONSULTRON would like to thank you for purchasing CrossDOS. We
believe you will find it useful as well as easy to use.
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Installing this Product
I have included a simple program called "Install_MSDOSFS". It can be
run from the CLI or from Workbench. It will prompt you through the
installation procedure. The program is broken up into separate
transfer procedures that allow you to install portions that apply to
your system configuration. If you wish, you can install the product
manually by placing the necessary files in the correct directories
(please refer to the manual supplied with CrossDOS).
The installation program will try to install the appropriate software
modules into your system directories (ie C:, L:, DEVS: and
SYS:System). If these directories are located on your hard disk, it
will attempt to install them there otherwise it will probably install
them on your WORKBENCH boot-up disk.
If you install CrossDOS, you may need to edit your
"S:startup-sequence" and move the commands appended on the end of
this file to a position before the "LoadWB" command.
For those who either do not have enough room on their system disks or
do not wish to install CrossDOS, a small utility called "Attach" is
included that will allow you to immediately mount and load an MS-DOS
floppy device on your Amiga. For further information on the "Attach"
command, refer to the manual.
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TDPatch12 and TDPatch13
The trackdisk.device code resident in Kickstart code versions 1.2 and
1.3 have a couple bugs in it that need fixing. "TDPatch12" and
"TDPatch13" correct this problem for KickStart V1.2 and V1.3
respectively. The installation program will detect the version of
KickStart you are running and transfer the proper patch version to
your "C:" directory. It will also try to append your
"S:startup-sequence" with the patch. (You may need to edit your
"S:startup-sequence" to make sure it gets placed in correctly.) It
must be executed before accessing any MS-DOS disk.
If you purchased an earlier version of CrossDOS, we stated that if
you had more than one 3 1/2" floppy drive installed you did not need
either TDPatch. It has been recommended by an expert within
Commodore that the TDPatch SHOULD always be run.
Earlier versions of "TDPatch13" had a bug in IT that would not allow
the patch to be applied. It has been fixed in this version.
TDPatch will not work in conjunction with NOCLICKSTART.
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International Character Translator
This version of CrossDOS allows for you to select an International
version of the file system. To select this version execute the
program "Install_msdosFS.INTL" instead of "Install_msdosFS".
The standard ASCII character set of MS-DOS matches the standard ASCII
character set of the Amiga one-for-one. The extended ASCII character
set, which include international characters, do not match so nicely.
For those who chose the International version, extended ASCII
characters found in the file names are always converted to their
equivalent (where ever possible) on the opposite system. Extended
ASCII characters found inside ASCII text files are not automatically
translated. To translate the extended characters within files, you
must either specify the "International Translator" character '['
(formerly the "High Bit Filter") within the MS-DOS filename or use
the global "International Translator" which operates similar to the
global "TxFilter" function. Refer to the "IntlTrans" utility located
in the technical reference file called "Tech_Ref".
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Improvements from previous versions of CrossDOS
This version has a number of minor improvements over the previous
versions of CrossDOS. It has better WORKBENCH compliance, a global
text filter for mass text data transfers and an improved manual.
This product disk also has a technical reference file on disk that
covers an example mountlist, a small glossary, and device error codes
supported by CrossDOS.
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MS-DOS Hard Disk Partitions
The MS-DOS file system is designed to read and write physical MS-DOS
hard drive partitions, although it has not been tested thoroughly.
Virtual MS-DOS partitions on an Amiga hard drive (such as JLink files
created by the BridgeBoard) are not accessible at this time.
We have a few people currently using this feature. One person is
accessing a MS-DOS formatted Bernoulli disk from both his IBM and
Amiga computers.
The installation program does not mount an MS-DOS hard drive
partition so that creating a mountlist entry for it must be done
manually. An example of a hard disk mountlist entry is included in
the file "DEVS/mountlist.msdos" for your review. You must configure
the mountlist entries so that the lowest block number points to the
MS-DOS boot block of the partition you wish to access. The "device="
parameter must also be the device driver for your hard drive
controller board.
I must also caution you about the fact that accessing the partition
at the device driver level has no means of detecting ownership of the
blocks. In other words, both your Amiga and the MS-DOS host computer
believe it has FULL control over the data written to the partition.
To help prevent this conflict, if one host writes to the partition
the other host must "change the disk". To change the disk on the
Amiga host, execute the "diskchange" command for that drive. To
change the disk on the MS-DOS host, change the default drive FROM the
partition then back TO the partition (ie. from C: to A: then back
to C:).
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Undocumented directory (DIAG/)
We have added a directory called "DIAG" that is not documented in the
manual. This directory contains files that are used for obtaining
diagnostic information should a problem occur. Use of these files
without specific direction from us is NOT RECOMMENDED. These files
may produce undesirable results if not used properly. Refrain from
using these files!
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Technical Support
Should you have any questions or problems, you can contact us at:
CONSULTRON
11280 Parkview
Plymouth, MI 48170
(313) 459-7271 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM EST
Thank you.