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- From: Jim_Johnson@abcd.Houghton.MI.US (Jim Johnson)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
- Subject: Re: Clarification about Re: Posting atari 8-bit binary files he
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- Message-ID: <Jim_Johnson.07l1@abcd.Houghton.MI.US>
- Date: 28 Aug 92 20:36:40 EST
- Organization: Amiga BitSwap Central Dispatch
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- In a message dated Fri 28 Aug 92 4:23, Chris_f_chiesa@cup.portal.com
- wrote:
-
- C> Re: transferring files from SPARCstation to Atari 8-bit
-
- C> This should work:
-
- C> * Acquire a copy of "mtools" for the SPARCstation; this is a public-
- C> domain
- C> set of routines that will allow the SPARCstation to read/write MS-
- C> DOS
- C> 3.5" floppy disks in the SPARCstation's built-in 3.5" drive. Use
- C> this
- C> capability to place your Atari 8-bit files onto MS-DOS 3.5" disk.
-
- C> * Acquire the program "UTIL" from the Atari Archive; copy it, too,
- C> onto
- C> MS-DOS 3.5" disk. UTIL is a program for the PC which allows it to
- C> read/
- C> write true double-density AtariDOS 2.0 (e.g. MyDOS w/o
- C> subdirectories)
- C> disks.
-
- C> * Acquire a PC that has a 3.5" drive AND a 5.25" drive. These seem to
- C> be
- C> getting scarcer, but I have one so maybe you can find one. Put the
- C> 3.5"
- C> disk containing UTIL (for the PC) and the downloaded Atari files,
- C> into the
- C> 3.5" drive. Put a true double-density AtariDOS 2.0 formatted disk
- C> into the
- C> 5.25" drive (formatting a "true double-density" disk in AtariDOS 2.0
- C> format
- C> is left as an exercise for the reader; I'd sweat over it, myself,
- C> but I've
- C> done it so I know it's possible). Use UTIL to write the Atari files
- C> from
- C> the 3.5" PC disk to the 5.25" Atari disk.
-
- C> * Use the 5.25" true double-density AtariDOS disk with any AtariDOS
- C> 2.0
- C> compatible, true double-density-supporting DOS, to read and use the
- C> files
- C> on your Atari.
-
- C> Caveats: UTIL is prone to misbehavior. Mtools isn't the easiest
- C> thing to
- C> use. UTIL only works on 360K PC drives.
-
- C> Chris Chiesa
- C> Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com
-
- Addendum: UTIL works fine for all READs on a 1.2meg PC drive, WRITES will
- also work fine if you FORMAT the disk on an Atari double density drive
- (e.g. USD 1050 or XF551) each time before you write data from the 1.2meg
- drive. I did this for a good couple years to move data between my Atari at
- home and PC at work.
-
-
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