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From: baalke@mars.jpl.nasa.gov (Ron Baalke)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bridgeboard, CrossDOS & virtual drives...frustration
Keywords: Bridgeboard, CrossDOS, virtual drives
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Date: 21 Nov 89 17:49:59 GMT
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In article <3461@rayssdb.ray.com> plw@rayssdb.ray.com (Paul L. White) writes:
>In case I didn't make myself understood, CrossDOS worked exactly as 
>advertised, except that I thought it would also make a disk readable
>by the Bridgeboard (the documentation said nothing about this, it 
>was just my wishful thinking). The AREAD program successfully copied
>the programs, but they were also unreadable.  Before I fell asleep
>last night, I thought of a scheme where AWRITE might conceivably 
>do the trick, but in the twilight of unconciousness, many lies are
>told.  (maybe I should use that line in my next book).
>
Are you using the /b option on AREAD and AWRITE. This is the "transfer file
as a binary file" option. If you leave this off, the default is that AREAD
and AWRITE will do the transfers as ASCII files, which is not what you
want for programs. Hope this helps :-).

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