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From: mlelstv@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de (Michael van Elst )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Shareware request
Message-ID: <684@faui44.informatik.uni-erlangen.de>
Date: 17 Oct 88 13:02:58 GMT
References: <133@modcomp.UUCP> <2765@sugar.uu.net>
Reply-To: mlelstv@faui44.UUCP (Michael van Elst (kdebugger))
Organization: CSD., University of Erlangen, W - Germany
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In article <2765@sugar.uu.net> peter@sugar.uu.net (Peter da Silva) writes:
>Here's a better challenge: DOS:
>
>Try this scenario.
>
>1> mount dosa:
>;Stick 3.5" MS-DOS disk in df0:
>1> copy dosa:#?.c ram:
>;Stick amiga floppy in df0:
>1> copy ram: df0:
>
>Now ALL your disk utilities work on DOS disks. This is the Amiga way to do it.
>You might need 'dosmount' and 'dosunmount' commands that tell AmigaDOS to
>get out of the way.

Hello everyone.
That's the way. I wan't to do it.

For the first step there is an ibmdisk.device that handles
physical IO just like the trackdisk.device but uses
the single/double density format of the IBM-PC.

The next step is a file transfer program that deals with the
filesystem structure of MS-DOS. I have a small Turbo-Pascal
program that does this on CP/M-80 computers.

The last step is a DOS file-handler that you can mount.
The dosmount/dosunmount commands are a simple ACTION_INHIBIT
to the appropriate handlers.

For now, the first step is nearly completed. I have
to discover some minor bugs and want to add a double-step
facility for 40-track disks.

				Michael van Elst

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