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From: Ordania-DM@cup.portal.com (Charles K Hughes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: ibm writing atari format
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Date: 22 Sep 90 01:19:50 GMT
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Andrew Cullum writes:
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>Hi,
>	Months and months ago, I heard about a program that let IBM's write
>Atari 8-bit readable disks.  Just yesterday, I noticed that a program such
>as this is available on the atari.archive.  However, the little blurb says
>that it writes Mydos format disks.  Unfortunately, I do not have Mydos, and,
>while it too is available at the archive, my only way to down load stuff for
>my old atari is through the IBM's at work, which means I need the Util
>program, which means I need Mydos...and around we go.....  So, my question 
>is, are Mydos formated disks compatible with anything else?  I have copies
>of Dos 2.5, 3.0 and XL floating around somewhere, will any of these work?
>For that matter, does the IBM program work?  Any and all suggestions of how 
>I might be able to get Util and/or Mydos would be appreciated.
>
>Thanks,
>Andrew Cullum (cierdain@ucrmath.ucr.edu or Elvis@watnxt2.ucr.edu)

  The IBM->Atari programs write double density Atari DOS 2.0 compatible disks.
With the exception of a few (weird) Atari DOSes, all DOSes for the Atari can
read this format.  I suspect that the authors of the program simply didn't
think that Atari DOS 2.0 supported double density.

Charles_K_Hughes@cup.portal.com