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From: murphy@pur-phy (William J. Murphy)
Newsgroups: alt.sources.amiga,comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: crossdos.luu crossdos demo
Keywords: CrossDos Demo files- LHARC format
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Date: 21 Nov 89 20:30:14 GMT
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Reply-To: murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy)
Organization: Purdue Univ. Physics Dept., W. Lafayette, IN
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In article <213@legs.legs> dash@legs.legs (Darrell Shively) writes:
>Last month, Joel Swan was kind enough to upload the CrossDos demo file
>for use.  It was uuencoded, and in LHARC format.  I uudecoded it fine,
>and now have crossdos.lzh.  Thankyou very much, Joel.

If you had gotten it from comp.binaries.amiga it would have been
uuencoded zoo format.  At least mine was.  (Or maybe I got it from 
something.tut.Ohio?) 

>By the way, what sort of luck have others had with the CrossDOS demo ?
>Has anyone purchased the retail package ?  If so, how do you like it ?

I purchased CrossDos a few weeks ago from our local retailer for $26.
Last night was the first time that I put it through any paces.  I had to
buy a 3.5" drive for my PC in my office, but I have had no trouble with
CrossDos on the Amiga 2000 w/ 2 floppies and 3MB on an 8up! card.  

Last night's work consisted of taking some ASCII data files that I had
created on the PC and writing a program to average and take the std. dev.
of the data points and spit out a file.  I found it easier to copy the
data with the ] filter (converts ^M^J to ^J) to ram: and then work 
only with the Amiga data since I was doing the floppy dance with my compiler
disk and C_libs disk otherwise.  Once I got past my stupid programming 
errors, I copied the data back to the MS-DOS disk and went to bed.

This morning the data worked just fine when read by my PC drive(s).
I'd say that CrossDos is another nail in the coffin of my 386,
now if I only had a 68030/882 and hard drive and ....


-- 
 Bill Murphy        murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu