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- From: shad04@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Dan Fandrich)
- Subject: Re: The easiest way to convert formats
- Message-ID: <1992Sep5.100333.763@ccu.umanitoba.ca>
- Keywords: CP/M,MS-DOS,conversion,format,disk
- Organization: University of Manitoba, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
- References: <9209020357.aa29394@WHARF.BRL.MIL> <1992Sep4.161528.16851@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
- Date: Sat, 5 Sep 1992 10:03:33 GMT
- Lines: 35
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- In article <1992Sep4.161528.16851@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> opalka@atom.enet.dec.com (Bill Opalka) writes:
- >|>May I suggest that the easiest way to convert formats (I do it quite
- >|>often) is to execute the job on one of those PC's which are anyway
- >|>idle anywhere. There is a program at the Simtel PC archive and its
- >|>replica named 22DSK that does it splendidly. It reads/write just about
- >|>any format from ready made tables, and if you have one very strange
- >|>format you can expand the table for your case. It won't work with hard
- >|>sectored diskettes nor with diskettes written with the Motorola
- >|>controller chip found on the old timer Commodore C-64 or Apples.
-
- >I suggest that if you still have your CPM machine up and running, why not use
- >a communication program to do the transfer. More than likely it will be
- >easiler than getting another piece of software and it should be fairly quick.
-
- I've written Yet Another CP/M disk conversion for the PC which I think is
- pretty keen. It installs as a device driver instead of being run as a
- standalone program so you can manipulate files right off your CP/M floppy
- instead of copying them to an MS-DOS disk first. The drive letter it gives
- you can be accessed like any MS-DOS drive, but reading your CP/M disk.
- This would be especially handy when you're running a CP/M emulator like Z80MU
- or looking at dBase files. It is limited to reading only.
-
- I'm finishing up the documentation now, so I'll have a beta test version
- ready Real Soon Now. If you're interested in beta testing this program
- (called CP/M Reader), let me know and I'll send you a copy when it's ready.
- It currently has about 40 or 50 different disk formats built-in, so it
- should work on just about any 512 byte per sector MFM format disk. I only
- have my own computer to test it on, so I can only say that Superbrain disks
- work like a charm (except for my disk alignment problem, grrr).
-
- I'll post a notice here when it's out of beta test.
-
- >>> Dan
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