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From: fzsitvay@techbook.com (Frank Zsitvay)
Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm
Subject: Re: osborne 1 to kaypro 2x
Message-ID: <1991Jan6.212940.5315@techbook.com>
Date: 6 Jan 91 21:29:40 GMT
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In article <9101042339.AA12951@composite.ce.Virginia.EDU> rr2g@COMPOSITE.CE.VIRGINIA.EDU (Rhonda Gaines) writes:
>I have recently acquired dbaseII for the osborne 1 and don't know
>how to use it on my kaypro 2x.  When I put the disk in it says it
>can't read my diskette.  Any ideas on how to convert these osborne
>disks to kaypro so I can use them?

   there is a program for the kaypro called mfdisk, which is supposed to
allow you to set one of your disk drives to the osborne format, as well
as format a disk in that format.  while i have not tried it myself,
i would guess that it works.
 
   there is a selection in that utility that is supposed to let you
read/ write, and format an ibm pc disk, but i haven't been able to get
that to work.  would it be safe to assume that only works for cp/m 86
and not msdos??   (msdos has a very different directory structure than
cp/m.  perhaps it works with msdos 1.xx or so...)



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