Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!pasteur!cory.Berkeley.EDU!cna From: cna@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Na Choon Piaw) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: Reading MS-DOS Disks on the Amiga Keywords: MS-DOS Disk <-> Amiga Message-ID: <18065@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> Date: 6 Oct 89 15:36:45 GMT References: <20254@usc.edu> <20334@usc.edu> Sender: news@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU Reply-To: cna@cory.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Na Choon Piaw) Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 31 In article <20334@usc.edu> acliu@skat.usc.edu (Alejandro Liu) writes: >4. Dos2dos > This is another commercial program that lets you do that. I have >little information on this one though. Well, a friend of mine bought this for transferring between his IBM and my Amiga (I'm the local TeXer, working from a demo version of AmigaTeX by Tomas Rokicki :-) ). Anyway, I haven't used enough of it to give it much of a review, but what it basically does is to assign a drive to the MS-DOS side, and allow you to do: DOSPROMPT> copy a:*.* fh1: and other stuff like that. You *cannot* use it to access MS-DOS files "on the fly". That drive is forever dedicated to MS-DOS (until you quit from Dos2Dos). It's good for what it does (transferring files), and I'm sure it is quite capable of transferring text files nicely (I haven't bothered much with it...) but I just use CygnusEd Pro to change all the ^Ms to nothing. (Incredible editor --- I though I was gonna have to write a simple filter to do it... [Yes, I'm quite capable of that, so don't send me sources for your own CR-LF converter ;-) ]) >Alejandro Liu >acliu%skat@usc.edu acliu@skat.usc.edu >(Simple .signature, $CHEAP$) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Na Choon Piaw P.O Box, 4067, Berkeley, CA 94704-0067 cna@cory.berkeley.edu Disclaimer: I'm speaking only for myself! piaw@ocf.berkeley.edu "Still on honeymoon with his Amiga...." -------------------------------------------------------------------------