Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!whuxlm!harpo!decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!egapmh From: egapmh@ecsvax.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro.apple Subject: Apple CPM to DOS converter Message-ID: <3507@ecsvax.UUCP> Date: Thu, 29-Nov-84 09:09:50 EST Article-I.D.: ecsvax.3507 Posted: Thu Nov 29 09:09:50 1984 Date-Received: Sat, 1-Dec-84 20:28:06 EST Lines: 19 I find it amazing how many people jump to the conclusion of assumed piracy as the result of a simple request. There are *several* flavors of Apple CPM. Microsoft is only one of them. Yes, many of them probably do come with an Apple DOS-to-CPM conversion utility. My Z-80 card, made by PCPI, marketed by MICROPRO, CPM by Digital Research, also includes such a utility. I would imagine that this is not universally the case. I seem to recall that some 3rd party Z-80 cards come pretty bare-bones. I do not think that DR makes a CPM-DOS utility a standard part of the CPM OS it sells . This would leave it up to the 3rd party licensee to provide such utilities. Not all do. Didn't DEC fail to provide a disk formatting utility when the Rainbow first came out? Besides, why would a "pirate" copy only part on the CPM system disk when other utilities are sitting there waiting to be "plundered"? As to the requestor, I believe that InCider magazine published the listing of such a utility sometime in 1983. I'm sure there are other public domain sources as well. Paul M. Hudy