Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!killer!convex!uunet!csdev!ll1a!nesac2!jec From: jec@nesac2.UUCP (John Carter ATLN SADM) Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc Subject: Re: MS-DOS <--> COCO disk copy program ??? Summary: two ways to do it Message-ID: <1252@nesac2.UUCP> Date: 25 Sep 88 02:44:24 GMT References: <8809160230.AA22192@emx.utexas.edu> <737@mcrware.UUCP> Organization: A.T.&T. Lisle, Ill. Lines: 34 In article <737@mcrware.UUCP>, jejones@mcrware.UUCP (James Jones) writes: > In article <8809160230.AA22192@emx.utexas.edu>, mknox@EMX.UTEXAS.EDU (Margaret H. Knox) writes: ] ] ] ] A friend with a TANDY COCO (5.25 diskettes) needs to exchange diskettes ] ] with an IBM-PC. Anyone know of a PD (or reasonable commercial) package ] ] to do such? ] ] I believe there is a program in the OS-9 SIG on CompuServe that will handle ] MS-DOSoid floppies. Southeast Media (the folks who put out *68 Micro Journal*) ] also sell some utilities for that purpose. ] ] If you are running some version of D.P. Johnson's SDISK3 device driver, then ] you can buy MSF from Clearbrook. MSF is an MS-DOS file manager which you can ] use with MS-DOS floppies the way you'd use RBF with OS-9 floppies. ] ] There may be RSDOS programs that do what you want, but I don't know of them. ] (Never had the urge to find out.) ] 'Cocoutil' is available from Mark Data Products - it runs on the MSDOS machine and can read/write RSDOS disks (NOT OS9). It can also do CR/LF conversions on the files. There was also a group of programs published (in RAINBOW magazine, I think) that allow a Coco to create (format, copy to/from) SINGLE-sided, 8 sector/track MSDOS disks (ancient, but supported under all versions of MSDOS). Both of the above work, each has its own features and limitations. Cocoutil is easier to use (menu-driven), the other one is always available on the Coco. -- USnail: John Carter, AT&T, Atlanta RWC, 3001 Cobb Parkway, Atlanta GA 30339 Video: ...att!nesac2!jec Voice: 404+951-4642 The machine belongs to the company. The opinions are mine.