Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!bloom-beacon!think!ames!pacbell!att!whuts!mhuxh!mhuxu!mhuxt!mhuxi!mhuhk!mhuxo!ulysses!thumper!faline!bellcore!clyde!watmath!kgdykes
From: kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm
Subject: Re: Woodpeckers inside 1541 drives (was cbm disks to DOS)
Message-ID: <19681@watmath.waterloo.edu>
Date: 30 Jun 88 10:21:58 GMT
References: <935@flatline.UUCP> <168@lakart.UUCP>
Reply-To: kgdykes@watmath.waterloo.edu (Ken Dykes)
Organization: S.D.G. UofWaterloo
Lines: 20


I just came to this newsgroup to ask the question
 "is there a program/driver whatever, or otherwise is it straighforward
    to read cbm disks on a dos machine"
i see several articles (as far back as we expire) with a subject line
implying i may find THEE ANSWER.
but all they talk about is how to buzz disk heads.
Was there an answer to THEE QUESTION? can DOS machines handle cbm disks?
A friend wants to discard his cbm business setup (inventory) and go to
a dos machine -- but he doesnt want to re-enter all the inventory data
and so it would be nice to be able to "convert" the data.
(as long as DOS can "read" the disks, we will figure something for any
  mangling the actual applications have done to the data)
(actually, i havent seen his cbm machine, i HOPE it doesnt use those
 ancient million-inch wide floppies (8 inch?))
  -ken
-- 
          - Ken Dykes,   Software Development Group, U.of.Waterloo
              kgdykes@watmath.uucp     kgdykes@water.bitnet
              kgdykes@waterloo.csnet