Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uwm.edu!rpi!pawl!kudla From: kudla@pawl.rpi.edu (Robert J. Kudla) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Reading MS-DOS Disks on the Amiga Message-ID: <1989Oct2.130815.11700@rpi.edu> Date: 2 Oct 89 13:08:15 GMT References: <20254@usc.edu> Organization: Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY Lines: 22 In-Reply-To: acliu@skat.usc.edu's message of 2 Oct 89 12:38:07 GMT In <20254@usc.edu> acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alejandro Liu) writes: Alejandro> Hi, Alejandro> I was wondering, is there any PD package for the amiga that would Alejandro> let the standard amiga 3.5 drive read MS-DOS disks? There are at least two (there are actually more but the other ones I've seen really suck). PCPatch will modify a running copy of PCCopy (from the Extras disk) to use the internal drive. CrossDos is available in a read-only version for free; it installs, I believe, as a device driver and you can treat ms-dos disks as AmigaDos-compatible. A full version is available for I don't recall how much, it was something like $50 I think, and there are ads in most of the new issues of Amiga magazines (I know I saw one in AC). I haven't tried Crossdos; don't recall where to get it. PCPatch works pretty well, except there are some AT&T 386 machines here I can't get it to work with even if I format to 720k (or 360k for that matter). PCPatch is available, I believe, on one of the Fish disks. -- Robert Jude Kudla What noisy cats are we.