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From: wolfram@cip-s06.informatik.rwth-aachen.de (Wolfram Roesler)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Can a PC read ST disks?
Keywords: compatabiblity
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Date: 25 Jan 91 13:46:59 GMT
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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?
>                                                      -- bemo

It principally is possible. A PC can read ST disks without problems. Reading
an ST disk on a PC is a matter of the formatting program (has sth to do with
the bootsector entries etc).