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From: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Cross-Dos and Messy-Dos
Message-ID: <788@sagpd1.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 90 16:20:55 GMT
References: <20196@snow-white.udel.EDU>
Reply-To: monty@sagpd1.UUCP (Monty Saine)
Organization: Scientific Atlanta, Government Products Div, San Diego, CA
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In article <20196@snow-white.udel.EDU> GWO110%URIACC.BITNET@brownvm.brown.edu (F. Michael Theilig) writes:
>
>     I got CrossDOS to install properly the first try.  I tried to
> use MSH because it will write and I heard was much faster, but I
> couldn't get it to work.  It would mount, but wouldn't work if I
> tried to CD to it.  Says insufficient free store or some such
> crap.  I have 1 meg.
>
	I hope you are not trying to imply that CrossDos will not write
to a dos disk, becasue if you are you are way off. Not only can you read
and write tranparently you can also format dos disks. One funny thing is
I have a 3 1/2 drive in my XT and I can not format a 720k disk on it. I
can read and write to them, but It will only format a 360k 3 1/2!! I format
all of my disks om AMI that I use in my XT :) (Something about my xt's 
controller doesn't know how to format 720K).
	CrossDos is great. It is real neat to access a dos disk by simply
calling it "A:". I read and write to dos disks all of the time. I also haven't
found an application yet that is unhappy with it either. There is one quirk
though that you have to explicitly access the DOS drive before most applications
know it's there i.e. cd to A: etc. After that there is no problem.

Monty Saine