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From: alz@tc.fluke.COM (Al Weiss)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Conversion CP/M --> MS-DOS (Big trouble!)
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Date: 26 Oct 89 15:47:29 GMT
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In article <1685.253ee834@esat.kuleuven.ac.be> lily@esat.kuleuven.ac.be writes:
>I've got a problem with CP/M diskettes. Somebody gave me a set of CP/M
>diskettes (presumably from a Tandy 3000 or so), and asked me to try to
>copy the text files that are on them to a MS-DOS diskette. I know of a
>program called UNIFORM to temporarily change the drive parameters but
>the real trouble is that the CP/M floppy's have 96 tracks. 
>Without a 96T drive I can only think of one way to solve the problem,
>connecting the printer port of the CP/M system to a PC and then print 
>the files, capturing them on the PC's side with a communication program 
>like Mirror or Procomm. This seems to be a very time consuming solution,
>and I am not sure that it would work (not mentionning that I don't have 
>a CP/M computer at my disposition).

There are various flavors of UNIFORM that run on many different computers,
both MSDOS and CPM, which allow you to copy from one format to gobs of others.
But if you do not have any machine with a 96 TPI drive, then you are in
trouble anyway.  If you still have access to the CPM machine with the 96TPI
drive, then get a version of UNIFORM for that machine, and it will write your
MSDOS floppies.  If you can find some other third machine, any OS, with 96TPI
and with UNIFORM on it then you can read the Tandy disks into the native
format and then in a second step write out onto an MSDOS floppy.  UNIFORM is
much preferable to a comm program when you have mass amounts to copy.

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Al Weiss                   alz@tc.fluke.com                      206-356-5252
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