CompuServe Messages

JR, Reading your messages…I'm getting a feeling what you'd like to do is use CrossDos to allow both sides to read the exact same physical data from a drive. In other words, have the PC side access the files on a HD as C: and have the Amiga access those same files as some other drive name under Cross Dos. If so, then the answer is no, that can't be done. On a PC side hard drive, the Amiga and the PC use separate partitions of the hard drive…thus neither is aware of the other's files on the same drive. If you're sharing an AMiga side HD, then what the Amiga does is create a very large file…that to AmigaDOS is a single file, to MS-DOS it shows up as a whole filesystem…or an entire drive if you will. That would be all well and good if CrossDos could mount files, but it can't…it mounts devices (such as a real drive) and reads floppies on those drives. If you could somehow or other mount the file, you'd still have the problem of getting around the AmigaDOS file header and extension blocks that are part of any AmigaDOS file before you could get to the MS-DOS filesystem. Oh..when I say, "it can't be done"…I should add that is under any current software that I'm aware of. It certainly is do-able, I just don't know of anyone who's gone to the effort to do it. Don