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- From: swinokur@cellar.org (Steve Winokur)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.misc,comp.sys.amiga.tech
- Subject: Re: Trouble writing to MSDOS disk with MessyDos.
- Message-ID: <3DFVwB2w164w@cellar.org>
- Date: 4 Jan 93 21:11:37 GMT
- References: <1993Jan4.144431.8253@brt.deakin.edu.au>
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- Organization: The Cellar BBS and public access system
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- ajmex@brt.deakin.edu.au writes:
-
- > I am have been using Messydos quite successfully for a while now to read
- > files from a MSDOS disk, but I have had trouble writing to a MSDOS disk.
- >
- > I can delete files, create/delete directories, and copy text files
- > to a MSDOS format disk, but when I try to copy a binary file to a MSDOS
- > disk, I get an error along the lines of "Error writing to disk".
- >
- > Does anyone have any idea why this is?
- >
- > I am running Workbench 1.3.
- > I dont know what version of Messydos I am running, but I downloaded it
- > about a year ago. Is there a newer version out?
- >
- > Thanks in advance, Alister Miller.
-
- Yeah, Toss out Messydos and get yourself a copy of "MultiDos." Multidos is
- -much- more stable than Messydos.
-
- I had similar problems as you did, and Multidos solved 'em.
-
- It should be available at "finer" ftp sites :).
- -steve
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