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From: grmg6820@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Geoffrey R. Mason)
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Subject: Re: Reading IBM disks in an Amiga Drive?
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Date: 16 Apr 91 05:48:17 GMT
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In article <1991Apr15.205242.1@acad2.alaska.edu> axpmw@acad2.alaska.edu writes:
>Stupid question - but I thought I read somewhere that there was
>a program that would read an ibm disk (ascii datafiles) from a
>normal amiga disk drive.
>
You bet there is!  There are a couple of them, some commercial and some 
public doman/shareware.  The one I use, and I like it quite a bit is
Cross Dos 4.0.  It allows you to read and write 360k and 720k MS-DOS/PC-DOS/
Atari ST formatted disks (Version 2.0 or higher) directly from AmigaDOS.
What is neat about Cross DOS is that it allows you to use your Amiga drives,
without having to give up the ability to use Amiga disks!  Your Cross DOS
mounted drives will read both!  You can also set up hard drive partitions
that allow MS-DOS stuff!  It will NOT read 1.2M or 1.44M disks, nor RUN
stuff off of MS-DOS disks..

>Is there one? Will it work an an a3000 under 2.0?  Where can I find
>it, if such a program exists?  
>
Well, they CLAIM it has been well tested in versions 1.2, 1.3 and 2.0, and 
they say you can run it on a standard Amiga (500, 1000, 2000, 2000HD, 2500,
or 3000)

The company that makes CrossDOS is Consultron located at 11280 Parkview,
Plymouth, MI 48170.  Ph#: (313) 459-7271.  It costs about $30 and you can
order it from ANY mail order company in AmigaWorld or .Info for about that
price.
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