Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!apple!agate!linus!nixbur!nixpbe!peun33!mboen From: mboen@nixdorf.de (Martin Boening) Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st Subject: Re: Downloading with an IBM for the ST Message-ID: Date: 12 Oct 90 08:17:42 GMT References: <4757MV010320@NDSUVM1> <1990Oct11.135121.26348@watdragon.waterloo.edu> Sender: news@nixpbe.nixdorf.de Lines: 40 In <1990Oct11.135121.26348@watdragon.waterloo.edu> swklassen@rose.uwaterloo.ca (Steven W. Klassen) writes: >In article <4757MV010320@NDSUVM1> MV010320@NDSUVM1.BITNET writes: >>he has no ST. He has an IBM XT with a 3.5 drive. Can he in any way download >>stuff for me using his XT??? >> Thanks, >The Atari can understand the IBM format but I believe the IBM won't >understand the Atari format. There are two possible solutions: After reading this, something form MY experiences: I have a Mega ST with TOS1.4 now. When I format a disk from the desktop all our PCs, XT's and AT's and whatnot IBM clones can read that disk and write on it. If I copy ST files onto the disk as well, the PC can read those so I can downlowd stuff to our UNIX machines that way. The other way around also works: Formatting disks on the IBM clone (using format b: /t:80 /n:9 because otherwise the drive usually tries HD format) and copying files from our UNIX machines onto them allows me to take home stuff which the Atari reads without problems. Gist of the matter: I don't need to use ANY conversion programs and get by with the standard utilities supplied by the operating systems. Where's your problem. If you have an orlder TOS, you will run into problems trying to read ST formatted disks on a PC. I never had problems reading PC formatted disks on my ST, even back in the TOS1.2 days! Maybe this helps you, maybe it doesn't. Just take it as information. So long, Martin Disclaimer: did I just say anything? -- Email: in the USA -> mboening.pad@nixdorf.com outside USA -> mboening.pad@nixdorf.de Paper Mail: Martin Boening, Nixdorf Computer AG, SNI STO SI 355, Pontanusstr. 55, 4790 Paderborn, W.-Germany (Phone: +49 5251 146155)