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From: fgd3@jc3b21.UUCP (Fabbian G. Dufoe)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: MSH v. Cross-Dos
Message-ID: <854@jc3b21.UUCP>
Date: 27 Feb 90 19:22:46 GMT
References: <1990Feb26.200907.12371@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu>
Organization: St. Petersburg Jr. College, FL
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From article <1990Feb26.200907.12371@spectre.ccsf.caltech.edu>, by stevel@tybalt.caltech.edu (Steve Ludtke):
> Just curious, does crossdos allow you to have both itself and the normal
> amigados drivers resident at the same time on the same drive. ie -so you
> can read either type of disk on one drive without having to swap drivers ?
> This is a real question, not a rhetorical one. (MSH does by the way.)

YES.  It's really handy when you have an unlabelled disk and don't remember
if it was (1) formatted with AmigaDOS, (2) formatted with MS-DOS, or (3)
not formatted.  If you insert a disk into df1: and AmigaDOS says it's bad
then CrossDOS will check di1: to see if it's an MS-DOS disk.

--Fabbian Dufoe
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