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From: ehr@ecsvax.UUCP (Ernest H. Robl)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.tandy
Subject: Re: Reading TRS-DOS disks on MS-DOS machine
Summary: not PD -- but it works
Message-ID: <7431@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: 3 Aug 89 19:05:38 GMT
References: <13715340TDD@MSU>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
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In article <13715340TDD@MSU>, 15340TDD@MSU.BITNET (Tom Davis) writes:
> I assume this has been asked here before, but I couldn't find it anywhere.
> Is there any PD software that will allow me to read some TRS-80 generated
> files with a PC?


If you mean model III or 4 files -- there are, after all a lot of
different machines called TRS-80 -- then I would suggest TRSCROSS,
a commercial product, which is available from RS stores.  (You may
need to get them to order it for you.)

Not only will it read the discs, but it also does the necessary
file conversions while copying to your MSDOS machine.  Super-
Scripsit files are converted to ASCII; BASIC programs which were
saved as BASIC programs (not ASCII source) are converted to MS
BASIC, handling such things as cursor screen locations.  No, this
program won't do all such changes for you, but it does handle 
most of them, leaving only minor manual cleanup.

I have about 60 discs or various data, much of it text files,
created on a model III.  From time to time, I want to use some of
those old files on my Zenith SupersPort.  So far, as long as the
original disc had not been corrupted, TRSCROSS has worked fine.

(I have no connection with the creators of TRSCROSS, Radio Shack,
etc., other than being a paying customer.)

-- Ernest

-- 
My opinions are my own and probably not IBM-compatible.--ehr
Ernest H. Robl  (ehr@ecsvax)  (919) 684-6269 w; (919) 286-3845 h
Systems Specialist (Tandem System Manager), Library Systems,
027 Perkins Library, Duke University, Durham, NC  27706  U.S.A.