Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!killer!chasm
From: chasm@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Charles Marslett)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: Re: Pc files to Atari
Summary: probably some improvements
Message-ID: <6082@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 11 Nov 88 15:13:24 GMT
References: <1270014@hpclkms.HP.COM> <493@jc3b21.UUCP>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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In article <493@jc3b21.UUCP>, rac@jc3b21.UUCP (Roger A. Cornelius) writes:
> I have the program that was posted awhile back by Charles
> Marslett (author of MyDOS) that does a fair job of reading/writing
> Atari disks in a PC.
> 
> It claims to also be able to format Atari disks, but my experience
> was that it left the drive in a strange mode, and I couldn't read a
> PC formatted disk again until doing a reboot.

I have done some cleanup on the format code (may still cause problems
on some machines, like my Premium/286 AT clone) -- and I am looking at
doing the single density I/O version.  That will be much less portable,
so it may come in AT and XT version (or even brand name stuff like real
OSs, who says the IBM world is really standardized, . . . (:->).

> It doesn't do as much as the happy, but then it's free.  I'll
> send a (uuencoded) copy to anyone that wants it (Email me).

And if I am closer (Texas) I'll do the same.

> Roger Cornelius      ...!uunet!pdn!jc3b21!sherpa!rac

Charles Marslett
chasm@killer.dallas.tx.us