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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>
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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.

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