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From: mjg@ecsvax.UUCP (Michael Gingell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Uniform for MS-Dos
Message-ID: <3559@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 17-Jul-87 08:39:46 EDT
Article-I.D.: ecsvax.3559
Posted: Fri Jul 17 08:39:46 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 18-Jul-87 13:39:05 EDT
References: <5016@jhunix.UUCP> <3300@oberon.USC.EDU> <5025@jhunix.UUCP>
Organization: UNC Educational Computing Service
Lines: 16
Keywords: Uniform, multiple disk formats
Summary: Not at all the same



Note that Uniform is a file transfer program CP/M <--> MS-DOS
and File Genie is a file conversion program. They are quite
different things. File Genie is a programmable file conversion
system that lets you convert files in one format to another e.g.
a data base from some obsure program to say DBase.

File Genie can not read alien disks made on non PC/MS-DOS disks.
Uniform can, and thats all it does. It lets you copy files to and
from CP/M disks on your PC. It does not convert or modify them in
any way apart from that.  By the way, there are other programs that
do the same thing, Xenocopy for CP/M <--> MS-DOS, PC Cross-Zap for
TRS-80 <--> MS-DOS, Matchpoint PC for Apple <--> PC etc., etc.

Mike Gingell   ...decvax!mcnc!ecsvax!mjg