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Alex Hughes <alex@zippo.demon.co.uk> wrote in article
<9903291509.01p5@zippo.demon.co.uk>...
> I'm after a bit of software which is only available on CD for
> the Amiga. Trouble is, I don't have a CD-ROM. So I was wondering
> if it's possible for a PC to read it so that I can transfer it
> across. (My plan is to pop down to the local Cybercafe and mail
> the software to myself - I only need a couple of megs)

Why don't you download PC2Amiga off the Aminet with the PC, save it to a PC
formatted 720k floppy, & install it on the Amiga (using CrossDos to read the
disk).

Then, as per the instructions with PC2Amiga, you can link a PC to the Amiga via
the serial or parallel port - parallel is quicker.

PC2Amiga allows any drive on the PC to be mounted on the Amiga over the
parallel/serial cable (whichever you use), so you could then access the PC
CDROM drive with the Amiga CDROM in it just like as if it was attached to the
Amiga for real.  

Run the PC side of PC2Amiga (it's a DOS program) under Windows 9X DOS Prompt
and you'll get all the long filename support you need.

Much more elegant solution than mailing the files about IMHO!

The aminet can be found at:

http://src.doc.ic.ac.uk/aminet/info/www/home-src.doc.html

and the filename is pc2am308.lha which can be found in Aminet's comms/misc
directory.  You'll need the lha file extractor to get the files out of the .lha
archive once it's on the Amiga, and the archive contains the small PC client
program as well - copy this back to the 720k floppy to put on the PC.

Full instructions are in an AmigaGuide document in the file-archive and it's
quite straight-forward to get going.

Have fun,

- MDW.