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From: a218@mindlink.UUCP (Charlie Gibbs)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Something like FastLynx wanted
Message-ID: <2099@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 12 Jun 90 20:28:48 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In article <04766.AA04766@sosaria.imp.com> wizard@sosaria.imp.com
(Chris Brand) writes:

>I'd like to connect an Amiga to a PC to transfer large files (>2 megs). On
>Messydos there are lots of terminal programs that use speeds like 115000
>baud. What terminal software for the Amiga is recommended to do such
>transfers?

     Rather than a terminal program, I'd use CrossDOS.  It makes
an Amiga's 3 1/2-inch floppy drive act exactly like a 720K IBM
drive; you can read and write MS-DOS disks at full floppy drive
speed.  If you have a 1020 you can even transfer to and from
5 1/4-inch 360K disks, although I've heard that people have
problems with other 5 1/4-inch drives.

     CrossDOS is only about $30, and well worth it as far as I'm
concerned.  However, there's also a publicly-distributable program
called MSH which people seem to like.

     Of course, if I'm on my bridge-board-equipped 2500 I just
AREAD and AWRITE from the IBM side... :-)

Charlie_Gibbs@mindlink.UUCP
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