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From: waggoner@dtg.nsc.com (Mark Waggoner)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: crossdos.luu crossdos demo
Keywords: CrossDos Demo files- LHARC format
Message-ID: <345@blenheim.nsc.com>
Date: 22 Nov 89 19:31:49 GMT
References: <213@legs.legs> <2804@pur-phy>
Reply-To: waggoner@blenheim.UUCP (Mark Waggoner)
Organization: National Semiconductor, Santa Clara
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In article <2804@pur-phy> murphy@newton.physics.purdue.edu.UUCP (William J. Murphy) writes:
>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 syntax (using ] on the end of a file name) to specify the end of
line conversion is the reason I have so far stuck with using
DOS-2-DOS.  Sticking a ] on the end of a file name means you can't use
wild-card file names to copy a bunch of files between MSDOS and
AmigaDOS disks.  DOS-2-DOS, while it doesn't let you access the files
through the normal file system, lets you do wild card copying.  Since
this is my most common usage, CrossDOS, for all it's elegance, is
harder to use.  

I have only used the demo version.  I assume the commercial version is
the same.

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