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From: acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alejandro Liu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reading MS-DOS Disks on the Amiga
Summary: Summary of responses, CrossDOS, MS-DOS, PC-PATCH, Dos2Dos
Keywords: MS-DOS Disk <-> Amiga
Message-ID: <20334@usc.edu>
Date: 6 Oct 89 14:24:13 GMT
References: <20254@usc.edu>
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Reply-To: acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alejandro Liu)
Organization: Organization for the preservation of Amigas, Inc.
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In article <20254@usc.edu> acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alejandro Liu) writes:
>   I was wondering, is there any PD package for the amiga that would
>let the standard amiga 3.5 drive read MS-DOS disks?

This is the summary of responses I got from that article.  Thanks to
anybody that replyed to this.

Basicly there are 3 packages for reading/writing MS-DOS disks.

1. MS-DOS
   This is a PD program (available through a Fish Disk) that lets you
read files.  It can ONLY handle one file at a time and the output goes
always to RAM:MS DOS.file.  It is also quite slow.

2. PC-Patch
   This is also available from a Fish disk, and it lets you read and
write MeSsy DOS disks.  It can handle Formating and data transfers
from and to IBM disks, it is still slow but is a major improvement
over MS-DOS

3. CrossDOS
   This is supposed to be the Ultimate MS-DOS<->AmigaDOS utility
letting address drives as if they were Amy devices or MS-DOS devices.
(No need to unmount or convert anything, data is passed directly to
the program as they are read)  And it is supposed to be fast too!
This is a commercial product and retails for around $30.oo but there
is a ReadOnly demo version available for free.

4. Dos2dos
   This is another commercial program that lets you do that.  I have
little information on this one though.

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