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Re: Transferring files from PC to Amiga

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From: Cato Myrkaskog
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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From: Cato.Myrkaskog@hiMolde.no (Cato Myrkaskog)
Subject: Re: Transferring files from PC to Amiga
Date: 1999/04/12
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