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- From: rholmes@athena.cs.uga.edu (Robb Holmes)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
- Subject: Re: C128/CPM FILES ON GCR FORMAT TO CPM MFM FORMAT
- Message-ID: <1992Aug18.223246.20467@athena.cs.uga.edu>
- Date: 18 Aug 92 22:32:46 GMT
- References: <1992Aug17.043038.1843@usenet.ins.cwru.edu>
- Organization: University of Georgia, Athens
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- In article <1992Aug17.043038.1843@usenet.ins.cwru.edu> aq743@cleveland.Freenet.Edu (William P. Maloney) writes:
- >Also, since I downloaded these files into a GCR CBM formatted disk what do
- >I have to do to get these on my MFM CPM disk?
-
- Before you can do anything else, you need a program that will run in C128
- native mode, and will copy your CP/M files over to a CP/M disk. There's
- a program callled Crosslink (or Xlink) that will do this, although its
- capabilities are limited.
-
- Once you have Xlink, you should also get a program called RDCBM and transfer
- it to a CP/M disk, along with the necessary utility to extract the files.
- (You'll probably find it in the form of RDCBM21.LBR, which requires a
- de-library utility, as well as an unsqueezer.)
-
- RRDCBM will allow you to read those Commodore native GCR disks while you're
- running CP/M, but it only works with a 1541 or 1571 drive. If you have a
- 1581, you're out of luck. Unless....!
-
- Unless you have a 1750 or compatible (512K or larger) REU. I have a program
- called xfer2reu, which runs in 128 native mode, and will transfer files
- from a Commodore disk to the CP/M ramdisk, formatting the ramdisk if
- necessary. So far as I know, it works with any CBM drive. However, it
- only works with a 1750 or clone, not with 1700 (unless it's been upgraded
- to 512K), and certainly not with QBB, RamLink, RamDrive, GeoRam, or any
- other type of ram expansion.
-
- XFER2REU is not entirely bug-free, so it's properly still in the beta-testing
- stage. However, it does work quite well most of the time for me. I've
- had some difficulties making it work properly for someone who has a very
- early 128, so I can't guarantee it would work for you.
-
- However, I'll be happy to email a uu-encoded copy of it to anyone who's
- interested. Please reply, if possible, to this address:
-
- rholmes@athena.cs.uga.edu
-
- I'll also respond to requests emailed to my bitnet addres, rholmes@uga,
- but it may take longer.
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- Robb Holmes WUGA-FM Ga. Center for Continuing Ed. Univ. of Georgia
- rholmes@athena.cs.uga.edu rholmes@uga.cc.uga.edu bitnet:rholmes@uga
- Signaturally challenged.
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