DOS compatible?
27-Nov-90 10:28:29
Sb: #2858-DOS compatible?
Fm: Betty Clay/SYSOP 76702,337
To: Michelle Boyd 71601,3666
Michelle,
It can be done easily if your friend has one of the several programs that
will read MS-DOS disks. My favorite is a commercial package called
CROSSDOS, which he can get from any dealer for about $20-25. It lets him
use his drive as an Amiga drive when he calls it an Amiga name; as an MS-DO
S drive when he addresses it with the name he selected for MS-DOS drives.
There is a freely distributable program that does much the same thing,
though it did not work as dependably for me, but it is in Library 9 of
AmigaUser: MSDOS.ARC/B 24K 22-Feb-89 Transfer IBM-format files to
AmigaDOS format
There is another commercial program called DOS-2-DOS that is good, too. I
used it until CROSSDOS came along.
With these programs, he can just put your disk into his drive, copy the
programs to an Amiga disk in the other drive, and then unarchive them, etc.
Betty