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From: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: ST->IBM PC, Floppies OK w/TOS 1.4
Keywords: TOS 1.4, IBM PC Floopy format
Message-ID: <10053@stag.math.lsa.umich.edu>
Date: 7 Oct 89 22:36:33 GMT
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Reply-To: hyc@math.lsa.umich.edu (Howard Chu)
Organization: University of Michigan Math Dept., Ann Arbor
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In article <18093@pasteur.Berkeley.EDU> soohoo@cory.Berkeley.EDU (Ken "nmi" Soohoo) writes:
>In my experience, TOS 1.4 correctly formats 720K IBM PC format floppies.
>I've transferred files using an Atari formtted disk with problems.
>It's kinda neat... ;-)
>
>Just curious, since I'm transferring Atari ASCII files to an IBM,
>and they come out just fine, how much of EBCIDIC (sp?) maps to
>ASCII (I assume a PC uses EDCIDIC, no?)

Nope, only *big* IBM dinosaurs use EBCDIC. PCs use ASCII, like the rest of
the modern world.

Too bad PCs can't read disks formatted for 10 sectors per track. I thought
that was what the silly BIOS parameter block was for, but DOS is too stupid
to understand what's written there... But yeah, it's handy to get 720K at
a shot.

I've got a NeXT cube in my home now. I'm working on getting a TOS file
server running on it, so I can get files back & forth to my Mega faster.
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