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From: ljdickey@watmath.waterloo.edu (L.J.Dickey)
Subject: Re: Reading DOS formatted diskettes
Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Mon, 3 Dec 90 21:16:12 GMT
Message-ID: <1990Dec3.211612.2176@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Keywords: DOS,disk,reading,info,transfer
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In article <4267@oakhill.UUCP> waynem@oakhill.UUCP (Wayne Martinez) writes:
>I need help transferring files from a NeXT CubeFloppy to a MegaST-2
...
I use the program IBMFMT by Moshe Braner.  An equivalent program is PS2FORM.
Both are free.

I frequently use disks formatted this way, or formatted with the PC, to
	write files with PC, read with ST, and to
	write files with ST, read with PC.

For casual use, you should limit the number of such disks on the Atari
to ONE disk, because the ST system gets confused by the fact that all
PC volume serial numbers are the same.  If you really have to use two
different IBM formated disks *in your ATARI ST*, insert a floppy that has
been formatted from the desktop of your ST in between. That way, the ST
will know that disks have been swapped, becauze the serial numbers will
be different, both times, once changing from a PC disk to an ST disk,
and again from ST disk to PC disk.  (Think if it sort of like double
clutching. :-)

I can not say much about the NeXT system and how it interacts with
the PC.  I suggest that you experiment with a real live PC with a 
couple of simple text files.