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From: ge@kunivv1.sci.kun.nl (Ge' Weijers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Trying to read an Atari St Gem-Dos disk on a Mac SE using FD/HD
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Date: 21 Nov 89 19:47:33 GMT
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Don.Weeks@p0.f3107.n124.z1.FIDONET.ORG (Don Weeks) writes:

>Peter,
>  I do this all the time. SE/30->Atari and back. I do have to preformat
>  the disks in DOS format before hand. In this way both the MAC and ST
>  can read/write the disks. I think that there might be a couple of
>  public domain programs that will format the Atari disks with the DOS
>  directory structure.
>                            Hope this helps.
>                                   Don Weeks

I've posted such a program to comp.binaries.atari.st some months ago.
I'll mail it to anyone on request. It's nothing spectacular, but it does
the job. I'm working on a version that generates 'twisted' sectors, but
that takes a lot of time I don't have currently.

Ge' Weijers


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