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- Path: sparky!uunet!gatech!psuvax1!psuvm!gaj2
- Organization: Penn State University
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 1992 22:06:08 EDT
- From: <GAJ2@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Message-ID: <92211.220608GAJ2@psuvm.psu.edu>
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
- Subject: Re: Not BBR, but...
- References: <1992Jul22.174940.5744@iscsvax.uni.edu>
- Lines: 19
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- >With the recent flurry of questions about BBR, I thought I'd pass along this
- >program which *claims* to be able to do the same thing, excepting that it
- >cannot format 3.5 on the 1581. It may not be BBR, but it's free. I haven't
- >had a chance to thoroughly check it out myself, hence the *claims*.
-
- This file is "MSDOS64". It can be used to transfer files between c64 and
- IBM formatted disks, but it has some limitations. Its greatet limitation is
- transfer file size; it will only trannsfer files of 32K (I'm not exactly
- sure if this number, but this seems familiar). Therefore, if an IBM file is
- greater than 32K, it will only transfer the first 32K of the file. I used
- this file for transferring IBM programs from 360K 5 1/4" floppies to 800K
- 3 1/2" disks for use on an IBM-compatible portable. Two other minor problems
- were that it wouldn't copy the time/date stamp of the original IBM file, and
- when CHKDSK.COM is run on the destination disk, file allocation errors are
- found in the disk's File Allocation Table.
-
- Despite these minor problems, it is a good program.
-
- Gordon Jenness GAJ2@psuvm.psu.edu
-