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From: janhen@wn2.sci.kun.nl (Jan Hendrikx)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Misunderstanding about my q. CrossDos (or something else ...) on a PC ?
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Date: 12 Sep 90 14:01:24 GMT
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In article <49392@olivea.atc.olivetti.com> borzieri@king.ICO.Olivetti.Com (Ivan Borzieri) writes:
>							Ivrea, 09/12/90
>I am here again (hoping not to bore you !)
>I found "msh" on abcdf20, but maybe I did not explain myself in the
>right way .

Well, you already got the solution to your problem. It is just
a bit simpler than you thought!

>I was looking for something running on a PC, not on the Amiga !
>That's because I have got the Amiga at home, not connected to the net,
>so I ftp from here at work, using a PC .
>But how can I transfer the files from PC's floppy to Amiga's floppy ?
>		1 - I can't bring the Amiga here at work !
>		2 - I don't own a modem .
>		3 - I don't want to buy CrossDos !

There is no need to run anything on a PC. You simply format a disk on
your Amiga at home using MessyFmt (included with MSH:), take it to your
work (or you can format a disk on the PC at your work), put your files
on it with the PC, go home again, and use the disk with MSH:. Then you
can copy them to regular Amiga-style floppies, if you like.

>so, I thought "maybe there's a program like CrossDos running on a PC ...",
>even if I don't believe it to be true .
>If you know about such a program, please HELP !

Such a program cannot exist, since Amiga style floppies are written
a whole track at a time, and the disk controller in a PC only writes
sectors. And the Amiga's MFM encoding scheme works slightly different.

>							Ivan Borzieri
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Olaf 'Rhialto' Seibert                           via janhen@sci.kun.nl
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