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From: swan@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US (Joel Swan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Bridgeboard, CrossDOS & virtual drives...frustration
Keywords: Bridgeboard, CrossDOS, virtual drives
Message-ID: <2184@jolnet.ORPK.IL.US>
Date: 22 Nov 89 23:39:08 GMT
References: <3461@rayssdb.ray.com>
Reply-To: swan@jolnet.UUCP (Joel Swan)
Organization: Media Specialties Ltd.
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In article <3461@rayssdb.ray.com> plw@rayssdb.ray.com (Paul L. White) writes:
:OK, I give up.  What's the secret?
:
:My Amiga 2000 w/ Bridgeboard and I had a wrestling match last night...
:the Amiga won.  My goal was to use my download of the PD version of 
:CrossDOS to transform my df1: drive into di1:.  Then I planned to 
:access an IBM checkbook program (Quicken) on a 3.5" disk.
:
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: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).
:
:======================================================================
:Paul White
:Safety in numbness.
:======================================================================

AREAD and AWRITE will work fine.  Make sure you use the /B switch if
you are transfering binary files.  (yeah, isn't that helpful of CBM, they
forgot to tell the original a2088 people about the /b switch.  Ha ha, 
funny 8-|  )

I call my "crossdos" drives a: and b: (original, eh?).  Just change the name in the mountlist and mount with that name.  So, from my bridge I would type 
something like...
  AREAD C:DWNLD.ARC A:DOWNLOAD.ARC /B

The C: drive is my fake ibm HD on my Amiga's HD and A: is my crossdos drive
that resides "inside" df0:.
The new file C:DWNLD.ARC should be fine.

Hope this helps.

Joel Swan