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Lagerweij WA (walagerw@cs.vu.nl) wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> A question from someone who really doesn't know a lot about the subject:
> I have an uncle who has a database in a ctos machine, and he want's to
> transfer it to a PC. the pc can't read the ctos`s disks and he doesn't
> know how to transfer the info to DOS-format.
> Can anyone offer any suggestions?
> 

The MSDOS Read and MSDOS Write commands under Executive allow CTOS files to be 
transferred onto MSDOS disks.

These commands are part of the MSDOS package, if you have Standard utilities 12.0 
or greater, they are supplied with that.

Alternatively you can write to MSDOS disks from within the PC Emulator or VPC.

The only data conversion done by these utilities is translation of MSDOS 
end-of-line (CR/LF) to CTOS enf-of-line (CR).  Any other format translation is up 
to you, so I'd suggest dumping the data to ASCII text files before trasferring 
them.


> Thanks,
> 
> Wouter Lagerweij.
> 
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> walagerw@cs.vu.nl| 'NO, I just think I'm two steps nearer to my grave!'
> 						- Queen

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