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From: migh@cuuxb.ATT.COM (~XT6561110~Mike Hall~C24~M26a~6029~)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Can someone post the CrossDOS demo?
Keywords: MS-DOS floppies read-only demo
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Date: 4 Oct 89 21:19:49 GMT
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Reply-To: migh@cuuxb.UUCP (Mike Hall)
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>>CrossDos comes with an mfm.device and you must mount your native Amiga

> Can you un-mount it once it is mouunted?
> If not, is it useful in a single floopy based system?
> REAL NAME: Joe Porkka   porkka@frith.egr.msu.edu

Yes, you can unmount it, but you don't really have to.
Yes, it is useful in a one-floppy system.  What we get is two ways to
access the same physical drive.  I call my "CrossDos" drive "A:" (real
unique, huh?), and the AmigaDOS name is still "df0:".  Pop in an AmigaDOS
disk and "dir df0:".  Pop it out, put in an MS/DOS disk and "dir A:".
Switch back and forth between the two.  "Info" gets interesting - it will
say one (df0: or A:) is "not a DOS disk", and report good information for
the other.

If you really want to "unload" most of the CrossDos handler, there _is_ a
"Kill" program.  It leaves a little bit of memory behind (<100 bytes I think),
though.

I think the cost was only $33 (with postage, direct from Consultron), and
I think it's nifty as heck - _this_ is what the Amiga can do!  Alternate
file systems, separating the file system from the DOS and from the drive!
.
The demo versions have made it to some "local" bulletin boards.  I think both
the Lattice and Safe Harbor BBS's have it.  It's neat, and I'd almost suggest
not bothering with the read-only version (that's the "demo" - fully functional,
but read-only), and go right for the R/W version.

Leonard Poma (I think that's his name) is responsive to the cockpit problems
I've had, and has heard about the bugs I've run into.  The latest release is
3.05B, which arrived last week when I was in Maine.  It'll get installed
tonight (but I'd still rather be in Maine! :-)

Mike Hall	att!cuuxb!migh