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From: zerkle@iris.ucdavis.edu (Dan Zerkle)
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Subject: Re: Reading IBM disks in an Amiga Drive?
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Date: 16 Apr 91 06:05:37 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.

"Stupid" questions like this belong in comp.sys.amiga.introduction.
In fact, is this in the FAQ file?  If not, it should be there.

>Is there one? Will it work an an a3000 under 2.0?  Where can I find
>it, if such a program exists?  

There are two.  One, called MessyDos is free.  You'll find it on a
Fred Fish disk.  It malfunctions under 2.0, however.  The other,
called Cross Dos, is not free.  You can buy it at your nearest Amiga
Dealer or via mail order.  It does work under 2.0.  Both of these
systems turn your Amiga drive into an MS-DOS drive.  You can use the
drive to do anything to an MS-DOS disk that you can do to an AmigaDos
disk.

           Dan Zerkle  zerkle@iris.eecs.ucdavis.edu  (916) 754-0240
           Amiga...  Because life is too short for boring computers.