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From: mjg@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael Gingell)
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Subject: Re: Reading MS-DOS disks
Message-ID: <1949@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 22-Aug-86 13:20:59 EDT
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> In article <408@ektools.UUCP> bruce@ektools.UUCP I wrote:
> >
> >... Are there any programs available which can
> >
> >a) convert an ST disk to MS-DOS and vice-versa or
> >b) read and/or write an MS-DOS format disk on the ST
> 
> First, I'd like to thank everone who took the time to send replies.
> 
> Here is what I've found. Originally I was trying to read/write from MS-DOS
> disks written on an HP-150. It seems that the HP-150 uses 256 byte sectors
> instead of 512 byte like the ST. Since then, I located an IBM-PC with a
> 3.5 inch drive.
> 
> The IBM-PC was unable to read disks formatted by the ST. However, the ST
> was able to read/write the PC-formatted disks, and the PC was able to read
> the disks after they had been to my ST and back. It seems that there are
> minor formatting considerations which the ST ignores but the PC enforces.
> 
> My experience, then, is that as long as the PC controls the formatting,
> files are exchangable between the PC and the ST.
> 
> Bruce Nelson
> ...rochester!kodak!ektools!bruce


Coming in on this a little late, I would like to add that there is
a program that runs on the PC that reads and writes many different
alien formats (275 is what they advertize). Included is the ST
format. Name of the program is XenoCopy II, from XenoSoft in
Berkeley, CA. $79.95

Mike Gingell   ..decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!mjg