Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!usc!ucsd!ucbvax!UTCVM.BITNET!MQUINN From: MQUINN@UTCVM.BITNET Newsgroups: comp.sys.apple2 Subject: Re: MS-DOS Message-ID: <9102010822.AA17538@apple.com> Date: 31 Jan 91 14:29:38 GMT References: Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 31 On Wed, 30 Jan 91 21:47:00 EST said: >Gregory Haverkamp said: > >As I have said recently, sometimes you can read the msdos disk written >to by the PCT on an MSDOS machine, and sometimes (most times) you cannot. >Thee is no consitancy as to what msdos machine will read the disk >and which will not. As for "real" MSDOS, I do not know what you mean. He means 'real' ms-dos as opposed to the way ms-dos files are written to any apple drive that's connected to the Apple instead of the PCT. If the drive is conencted to the apple, the disk is block formatted as a ProDOS disk, but the FAT is the same as ms-dos. Therefore, the disk can ONLY be read in the exact configuration that is was created. On the other hand, if you have an Apple 3.5" drive connected directly to the PCT (NOT the smartport), then you can format 'real' ms-dos disks. They can be read on REAL ms-dos machines (some of the time). Also, REAL ms-dos formatted disks created on a REAL ms-dos machine (which the PCT is, by the way), can easily be read by the PCT if a drive is connected directly to the PCT. >All IBM compatibles are "real" msdos machines. The actual DOS used That's what he's talking about... 'real' ms-dos machines as opposed to an Apple II with a PCT. >Ray Waxmonksy (waxmonrw@snybufva) Bitnet, of course. ---------------------------------------- Michael J. Quinn University of Tennessee at Chattanooga BITNET-- mquinn@utcvm pro-line-- mquinn@pro-gsplus.cts.com