Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watnot!watmath!clyde!rutgers!ames!ucbcad!ucbvax!lll-es-s05!hanscom From: hanscom@lll-es-s05.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.os.cpm Subject: converting a CP/M operation to IBM PC Message-ID: <8703231756.AA16375@lll-es-s05.ARPA> Date: Mon, 23-Mar-87 12:56:55 EST Article-I.D.: lll-es-s.8703231756.AA16375 Posted: Mon Mar 23 12:56:55 1987 Date-Received: Wed, 25-Mar-87 04:44:31 EST Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Distribution: world Organization: The ARPA Internet Lines: 32 > Message-Id: > From: LIN@XX.LCS.MIT.EDU > Subject: converting a CP/M operation to IBM PC >I currently run a Compupro S-100 system with CPM 2.2 or MPM 8/16 -- 8 >inch floppies. Any ideas how I can transfer my important stuff >(documents, spreadsheets, databases) to an IBM-compatible layout? >I guess what I need is some way to write all my files onto a 5 1/4 >inch floppy that my IBM can read. One of the best (and cheapest!) ways I have found for ASCII and text files is to get a copy of the pd comm. program QMODEM (for the Clone) and use an RS 232 link. Quick and easy. QMODEM has a very nice download feature, that lets you capture everything that comes over the serial line. I have used this method with a Cromemco S-100 w/8" disks, and it works great. In fact, the Cromemco uses an RS 232 device for the console, so the IBM (Clone) with QMODEM makes a great DUMB TERMINAL from which I can run the S-100. I have even gone as far as DUMPing small .COM files, moving the dump text as above, and then using a TURBO-PASCAL program on the clone to put them back in binary. You could do the same thing with HEXIFY/LOAD (assuming you can transfer copies of those guys some other way first). DUMP is a rude and crude approach, but it's easy! While I'm at it.....you'll need a good editor (I use a copy of micro- EMACS I got from the C-user group pd software), and the pd disk utility DT is pretty good for looking at the internals of files on the Clone. Both are available for next to nothing. Good luck.