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Article #42019Re: atari ST diskettes on PC
From: Steve Marshall
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 23:16
Date: Wed, 03 Mar 2004 23:16
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"Philippe Cousson" <philippe.cousson1@libertysurf.fr> wrote > No, what I mean is how to get files, mainly texts, from diskettes first used > on an Atari ST, for use on a Windows PC. > It helps if you have the same program on both machines so that it will recognise the formatting. not many people have PC versions of Atari word processors though. Format a disk to IBM standard then save the file as doc or txt etc and see which are useable on the PC. It depends what PC programs you have as to which will work best. The chances are you may have to reformat the document which may mean going through every line. Steve M
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