Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!ukma!uflorida!haven!mimsy!aplcen!arrom
From: arrom@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu (Ken Arromdee )
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Pc files to Atari
Message-ID: <225@aplcen.apl.jhu.edu>
Date: 9 Nov 88 21:47:58 GMT
Reply-To: arrom@aplcen.UUCP (Ken Arromdee (600.429))
Organization: Johns Hopkins University/CPP, Laurel, MD
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I tried  to send this directly to charles@decuac.dec.com but the mailers
bounced it...
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I wasn't trying to use MSDOS to write on the Atari disks.  What I did was
to use a MSDOS copy program to copy an Atari disk onto a blank, unformatted
disk.  This was a program whose normal function is to copy a copy-protected
MSDOS disk.  Although sector size and the like certainly differ between
Atari and MSDOS disks, sector size, etc... on a copy-protected MSDOS disk
are also often different from a standard MSDOS disk; I was wondering if the
copy program would be able to copy the Atari disk, thinking it was actually
a copy-protected MSDOS disk and trying to copy the different size sectors
(and so forth) using the same routines it uses to copy the unusual layouts
of copy-protected MSDOS disks.

As I noted, I was partially successful.  The MSDOS copy program managed to copy
some, but not all, of the Atari disk onto the blank disk.  It copied enough that
some complete files on the (formerly blank) disk were readable and executable,
and I could do a directory of the disk and find that DOS XL thinks the disk
contains the same files that were on the original.
--
"I don't care if you _did_ do it in a movie once, Gilligan is not breathing
through that reed!"

--Kenneth Arromdee (ins_akaa@jhunix.UUCP, arromdee@crabcake.cs.jhu.edu,
	g49i0188@jhuvm.BITNET) (not arrom@aplcen, which is my class account)