#Read IBM Floppy?
05-Aug-93 08:53:18
Sb: #109343-#Read IBM Floppy?
Fm: Andrew Porter 72134,2050
To: Philip Murnane 76424,2026
Philip,
CrossDos is more dependable than the PD version, understandably. Glad you
were able to get it to work ok.
RE: WB2.0 vs 2.1 on the surface they are the same except for the CrossDos
software but there are an number of other enhancements which one may or
may not notice.
For example, file requestors are considerably faster and I believe there
is disk cache for them to increase speed on repeated dir access. The file
structure is slightly different with a more Drag-&-Drop interface (ie.
instead of having to edit a mount list all you have to do is drop the new
device into the devs directory.) If you don't like American english then
you can change your requestors to the language of your choice. There are
other small enhancements which make the upgrade worthwhile but I don't
remember what they are 8^).
Andrew