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From: silvert@cs.dal.ca (Bill Silvert)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Can a PC read ST disks?
Summary: ST can read PC disks
Message-ID: <1991Jan18.130833.23965@cs.dal.ca>
Date: 18 Jan 91 13:08:33 GMT
References: <1991Jan17.224413.20354@rice.edu>
Sender: silvert@cs.dal.ca.UUCP (Bill Silvert)
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Organization: Habitat Ecology Div., Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
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In article <1991Jan17.224413.20354@rice.edu> bdm@spacsun.rice.edu (Brian D Moore) writes:
>
>     I read something on the net that raises a question:  can I put an
>ST disk in a PC and read it directly?  I have been considering downloading
>from the PC binary net for a friend of mine, but was curious how to pass
>on the programs.  If this is so, it would greatly facilitate things, as
>I was daunted by the prospect of downloading, uudecoding, and porting through
>PC-Ditto (software version).   So, am I saved from this?

The ST can handle PC disks, so format disks on the PC and copy files
from the ST to them.

There are other options -- special formatting programs exist, and TOS
1.4 generates PC formatted disks automatically -- but this always works
(so long as you have a double-sided ST drive of course!).
-- 
William Silvert, Habitat Ecology Division, Bedford Inst. of Oceanography
P. O. Box 1006, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia, CANADA B2Y 4A2.  Tel. (902)426-1577
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