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From: bjc@pollux.UUCP (Betty J. Clay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Reading MS/DOS Floppies
Message-ID: <16046@pollux.UUCP>
Date: 24 Dec 89 18:05:00 GMT
References: <1587@ktibv.uucp>
Reply-To: bjc@pollux.UUCP ()
Organization: Department of Electrical Engineering; S.M.U.; Dallas, TX, 75275
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In article <1587@ktibv.uucp> ml@ktibv.UUCP (Marinko Laban) writes:
>
>Hello, World
>
>I've posted this before, but since I didn't get any response, I think it
>got lost in the mists of the network. Here I go again.
>
>I'm looking *DESPERATELY* for a program for my Amiga 1000 that can read
>3.5 inch MS-DOS floppies on an Amiga drive. I've heard of a program called
>Dos2Dos, but I don't know anything about it.
>
>
>
>| Greetings, Marinko Laban                                              |

This is really a topic for comp.sys.amiga - not for comp.sys.amiga.tech you
know!

However - since it is virtually impossible for me to get mail out of this
system, here is your answer:  There are two commercial programs that let
you both read and write MS-DOS format on the Amiga drives.  The older one
is Dos-2-Dos, which you mentioned.  It comes from Central Coast Software, 
is advertised in almost every Amiga magazine, and is available for about
$35 from the mailorder firms.  It works quite well.  

The newer program is CROSSDOS from Consultron, and is also advertised and
sold by most dealers and mailorder firms - usually for about $20-25.  I
have used both, and I prefer CROSSDOS.  It works by installing an msdos.
device in your devs: drawer so that your drive literally becomes an MS-DOS
drive when used with that device and its handler.  If you address the drive
by its MS-DOS name, the drive responds as an ms-dos device; if you call
on it by its Amiga name, it responds as an Amiga drive.  You can use the
drives transparently and alternately without rebooting.  Great way to do
it!

Betty

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