CompuServe Messages

Graeme, Disk-2-Disk will write and read from disks for the Commodore 1541/1571 drives. DOS-2-DOS, also from Central Coast Software, will read and write MS-DOS disks. It works well. Another alternative, and one which I like much better, is CrossDOS. It costs about $20-25 mail order, and will let you mount your drives as both Amiga and MS-DOS drives at the same time, using different names for the two systems. Example: My internal drive is mounted as DF0: for Amiga disks, and at the same time, as MF0: for MS-DOS disks. If I give a command using DF0: the drive accepts only Amiga format. If I remove the Amiga disk and put in an MS_DOS disk, and give a command specifying MF0:, it reads and writes only the MS-DOS format. You can mount all of your floppies this way with your program, letting you copy Amiga disks to MS-DOS and vice versa, or keep a disk available for each system, or whatever your need. There is a freely distributable program in our libraries, I think called MSDOS2.??? that works in a fashion much like CrossDOS, but I have had excellent results with the commercial program, and have heard of many having problems with the freely distributable one. It might be worth a try for you, though. You should locate it quickly using the file finder and a keyword of MSDOS or MS-DOS or maybe even MSH or MESSYDOS. It gets all those names from time to time. Betty