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Article #10Re: Transferring files from PC to Amiga
From: Cato Myrkaskog
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 12 Apr 1999 00:00
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On Wed, 07 Apr 1999 18:49:08 +0100 (BST), tez@pierrot.co.uk (Terrance Richard Boyes) wrote: >aldert <zomeral@biol.rug.nl> wrote: >> I want to know if someone knows how to let the PC save Amiga files in >> Amigaformat that I want to download from the internet so that I can read >> them without problems on my Amiga. I own an Amiga 500 with 1 Mb memory. >> I run under Workbench 1.33. Can anyone help me with this problem or does >> anyone knows how to read PC files on my Amiga and that I can compile >> them to Amiga dos? > >I've still not seen a PC floppy that can handle AmigaDOS format >disks. However all Amiga floppy drives can read 720K PC/MSDOS >formatted disks. With later versions of WB this comes as standard, >you'll need to get a copy of either the commercial CrossDOS, or >one of the PD "messydos" programs. > >If you don't have Internet access from your Amiga currently it >may be a little tricky to get it onto your Amiga in the first >place (if so shout up and we can go into the various methods >of getting that done :) I'm having the same problem, and no internet access from my amiga 500. The worst problem is that my only remaining copy of wb went down below yesterday, so I have to find a new copy somewhere...... I have adf-files of wb, but how on earth...... ???? cato
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 1160fd,25ae2dc1ced4821c X-Google-Attributes: gid1160fd,public X-Google-Thread: 106d72,25ae2dc1ced4821c X-Google-Attributes: gid106d72,public X-Google-Thread: f7331,25ae2dc1ced4821c X-Google-Attributes: gidf7331,public From: Cato.Myrkaskog@hiMolde.no (Cato Myrkaskog) Subject: Re: Transferring files from PC to Amiga Date: 1999/04/12 Message-ID: <3711f679.18594156@news> X-Deja-AN: 465467163 References: <370B1BDB.360AE4F7@biol.rug.nl> <19990407.174908.0AA80202.oxiz@pierrot.co.uk> X-Complaints-To: news-abuse@uninett.no X-Trace: snipp.uninett.no 923924223 26265 158.38.68.217 (12 Apr 1999 13:37:03 GMT) Organization: UNINETT news service Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulation,comp.sys.amiga.emulations,demon.tech.amiga