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From: cinf07@vlsi.polymtl.ca (Miguel Pedro et Louis Sabbat)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: reading/writing other formats with 1581
Keywords: Format Executive Amiga 1581
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Date: 19 Mar 91 21:31:10 GMT
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I didn't find the add that I was looking for last night, but I did find an
article about Format Executive.
It was in Compute's Commodore Buyer's Guide 1989  (a magazine with over
a thousand products described).

From what's said in the article, it (basically) looks like Big Blue Reader
i.e. supports IBM and a number of CP/M formats. Unfortunately, it doesn't
support the 1581 and only runs on a C128.

I apologize if I got anyone's hopes high. The add I saw probably said 
something like: '...also reads others formats...'
and I just assumed it meant Amiga, Apple, etc... instead of CP/M.

If you want to check it out anyway (maybe a newer version accepts Amiga
and/or Apple formats and supports the 1581...), here it is:

Format Executive 3.0   by
Powersoft
P.O. Box 7333
Bradenton, FL 34210

The price was $59.95 (don't forget the magazine was the january 1989
edition).


 
--
   Miguel Pedro
   (Send any E-mail to cinf07@info.polymtl.ca)