Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!mcvax!ukc!etive!hwcs!zen!frank
From: frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Loading files onto your Amiga
Summary: How?
Message-ID: <1487@zen.UUCP>
Date: 20 Jan 89 12:05:34 GMT
Reply-To: frank@zen.co.uk (Frank Wales)
Organization: Zengrange Limited, Leeds, England
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This question must have been answered at some point, but I'm a new
kid on this block, so I thought I'd ask anyway.

I've just taken delivery of a basic 2000, and I'll have a capacious but
empty hard disk RealSoonNow.  I've been saving stuff from
comp.{sources|binaries}.amiga for the past couple of months in
anticipation, and now the time has come to get this lot onto my
beastie.  The question is -- what's the best method?

The following possible options occur to me, listed in order of
decreasing preference:

	1) write AmigaDOS disks here at the office and take those home
	   for loading -- we only have HP 9000s and PCs here capable
	   of writing 3.5" disks, but I'm prepared to write a program
	   to write AmigaDOS disks if one doesn't exist and it seems
	   feasible;
	2) write 3.5" DomesDos disks at the office and read them using
	   some Amiga/PC utility at home -- this seems the most plausible;
	3) use UUPC or some other comms software to talk to our office
	   systems for downloading -- this involves either 'phone bills
	   or moving the 2000, neither of which I fancy doing often;
	4) actually spend money on some additional hardware, such as
	   an external 5.25" drive, and use that to read PC-written disks.
	   
Ideally, it should work both ways (otherwise, how can I post my gems? :-)).

Note that I don't have a Bridgeboard, nor do I have any intention of
getting one, for what I hope are obvious reasons.  Note also that
for the purposes of getting bootstrapped, I can get the use of a
colleague's Bridgeboard, but I'd rather not have to pester him every
time I want to bring stuff back and forth.

So; how do *you* get stuff onto your Amiga?

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Frank Wales, Systems Manager,        [frank@zen.co.uk<->mcvax!zen.co.uk!frank]
Zengrange Ltd., Greenfield Rd., Leeds, ENGLAND, LS9 8DB. (+44) 532 489048 x217