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From: dyer@atari.UUcp (Landon Dyer)
Newsgroups: net.micro.amiga
Subject: Re: encoded source codes
Message-ID: <201@atari.UUcp>
Date: Sun, 20-Apr-86 13:34:36 EST
Article-I.D.: atari.201
Posted: Sun Apr 20 13:34:36 1986
Date-Received: Wed, 23-Apr-86 12:30:39 EST
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Organization: Atari Corp., Sunnyvale CA
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Summary: HOLDONWAITAMINUTE!

> >Now that landon dyer has been so kind as to submit an atari->amiga
> >translator, there are a number of atari binaries already available
> >that could be used on the amiga.  All you need is the above mentioned
> >uudecode.
> 
> I saved away the Atari-Amiga translator, but have not unpacked it yet.  I
> figure it might be a uuencoded program to erase my floppies or something
> (read net.sources.d for more related topics).

HOLD ON!  STOP!

The translator I posted to net.micro.amiga translates AMIGA binary files
to the ST binary file format.  Amiga-->ST.  Got it?

In addition, the translator is meant only for developers who specifically
have written code for the ST.  You cannot translate any random binary file
you have sitting around on one of your Amiga disks.  You have to make ST
VDI calls, and so on.

The purpose of the translator was to give Amiga developers the opportunity
to write programs for the ST, using the Lattice C enviroment on the IBM-PC
version of the Amiga development system.

(The source for the translator was recently posted.  And the uuencoded
executable translator -- which runs ONLY under MSDOS -- is certainly NOT
a floppy disk or hard disk formatter program, but I appreciate your
caution!)

Hope this cleared up the confusion.

-- 

-Landon			"If Business is War, then I'm a Prisoner of Business!"
... {hoptoad, lll-crg!vecpyr}!atari!dyer		 "Quantity is Quality"