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From: ecwu58@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Murray)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Help with downloading
Message-ID: <3216@castle.ed.ac.uk>
Date: 9 Apr 90 14:37:57 GMT
References: <16823.9004062134@loke.idt.unit.no>
Reply-To: ecwu58@castle.ed.ac.uk (Chris Murray)
Organization: Edinburgh University Computing Service
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In article <16823.9004062134@loke.idt.unit.no> gilje@idt.unit.no (Martin Gilje Jaatun) writes:
>I don't know if this is the proper place to ask, but here goes :
>
>I own an Atari 800 computer with a 1050 disk drive. I have, however 
>no way of connecting this to any network, so I need a program to write
>Atari DOS- format diskettes from an IBM PC. I found just such a program 
>at terminator.cc.umich.edu, "atario.arc", but I have not been able to 
>un-arc it. Do you know what program I must use to un-arc  that file, or 
>do you know of anyplace I can get an un-arc'ed version ?
>Thanks in advance, I hope I'm not violating any rules of etiquette.
>
>Martin Gilje II Jaatun
>+47 7 594426 (Call anytime........but email is cheaper !)


"Atario.arc" is a PC archive so you should use something like PKUNPAK
on your pc to extract all the files (make sure you ftp the archive in
binary mode).  If anyone has problems un-arcing the archive I can e-mail
the un-archived files.

However, as far as I know (i.e. last time I looked at it), "atario"
only allows a PC to read 8-bit Atari double-density disks, and NOT
write to them (from pc).  This is probably not what most people want,
i.e. it allows you to upload atari files to a PC (and then to a net),
but not download from one to your atari.  The programs written in
Pascal thought if some disc wizard feels up to adding a PC -> Atari
mode.  I hope there IS a PC -> Atari utility...

--Chris