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From: lsmichae@informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Lars Michael (AKBP WS 1990))
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Amiga files to Atari ST format : Help
Message-ID: <1991Jan23.094835.6676@informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 23 Jan 91 09:48:35 GMT
References: <480@opus.NMSU.Edu> <3431.279b8b31@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu>
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rlcollins@miavx1.acs.muohio.edu (Ryan 'Gozar' Collins) writes:

>In article <480@opus.NMSU.Edu>, dmarten@nmsu.edu (MARTEN) writes:
>>  I  am trying to use one of these Atari ST emulators I have, but cannot get
>> started because I can not copy Amiga files to the Atari ST format.
>> So my question:  Is there any PD program out there that can do this?
>> I know that Dos2Dos will do it if you have the full blown version, the PD
>> version will only read.
>> What I would really like, is to find the prameters of the Atari ST format
>> to use with MSH.  If anybody knows of the MSH prameters, please let me know.

>An ST disk is exactly the same format as IBM disks, so all you need to be 
>able to do is read an IBM Disk.

That's wrong for TOS Versions older than the Rainbow TOS:
	The TOS format is *not* exactly the same as the MS DOS format.
	The media deskriptor byte is different. This byte is used by MS DOS but
	ignored by TOS. That's why an ATARI can read an write PC disks but a PC
	can't even read a TOS disk.

The TOS Versions V1.04 (Rainbow TOS) and higher Versions (STE TOS and TT TOS)
use the original deskriptor byte used by MS DOS.

									Lars