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From: stowe@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (stowe)
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Subject: Re: ibmpc-->st?
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Date: 19 Feb 90 18:37:18 GMT
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In article <36263@iuvax.cs.indiana.edu> cline@silver.ucs.indiana.edu (Nicholas Cline) writes:
>This is probably a novice question, but... Could anyone tell me how
>I can transfer files from a PC to an ST? Are the disk formats 
>compatable? Is there a program for either that will allow it to
>read the other's disks? Thanks,
>
>Nick Cline
>cline@silver.ucs.indiana.edu
>

Nick,

The PC and the ST use the same basic file structure.  You can take a 3.5"
disk that was formatted and written on a PC and read it and write to it
on an ST.  The exception to the rule is, obviously, disks that have been
formatted on a high density (1.44Meg) drive on the PC.  The ST has 720K
drives currently.  Secondly, if you format a disk on the ST with a TOS
earlier than 1.4, you will need to use a different format program other
than the one that comes with the ST.  The IBM looks for a particular boot
block that, until TOS 1.4, the ST didn't write onto the disk.  There are
several ST programs that will format the disk with the IBM boot blocks
in place, however, not the least of which is NeoDesk.

Hope that helps.

Holly


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