reading IBM-PC floppies.

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From: Rene van 't Veen
Date: Wed, 20 May 1987 16:17

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  Hi there,

  Can anybody tell me, whether it is possible to read IBM-PC floppies on the
ST and vice-versa. I know it says somewhere that the two of them are supposed
to be compatible, but I wonder whether anyone has tried this yet. Hardware
differences are not the point, since I saw somebody advertising a 5 1/4 inch
drive for the Atari and I know that the new PS/2 IBM machines are using 3 1/2
inch floppies as well as the IBM-PC junior. What I really want to know is :

    How easy is it to read a file created on an Atari on an IBM-PC and
    vice versa ??

Any comments on this one ?

Has anybody tried it ?

                    --- Rene

                    mail : ..!mcvax!nikhefh!u13 or u13@nikhefh.UUCP


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From: u13@nikhefh.UUCP (Rene van 't Veen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: reading IBM-PC floppies.
Message-ID: <282@nikhefh.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 20-May-87 12:17:11 EDT
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Posted: Wed May 20 12:17:11 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 23-May-87 06:43:18 EDT
Organization: Nikhef-H, Amsterdam (the Netherlands).
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Keywords: IBM-PC, Atari-ST, floppies