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- From: hinz@picard.med.ge.com (David Hinz Mfg 4-6987 ~BHOSVWZ#097)
- Subject: Re: Reading Coco files on my MS-DOS machine
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- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 92 08:31:24 GMT
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- Doug Morack (DCM115@psuvm.psu.edu) wrote:
- : Does anyone know of an FTP site where I could get a program to read my old
- : RS-DOS disks on my IBM-compatible? If not, is there still a commercial program
- : on the market? Thanks in advance.
- :
- : Doug
-
- I (vaguely) remember doing the reverse with a coco reading an IBM diskette,
- as I recall (again, fuzzily) they both use the same disk controller chip. SO,
- what I did was probably a dski$ (diskin$? I forget, you know the direct access
- stuff), read it in sector by sector, and clean it up with (ugh) scripsit. There
- was some problem at the sector boundries, perhaps a checksum or whatever, but
- if you're trying to read other than ascii text, you're probably out of luck.
-
- If you need more details, I'd be happy to try to dredge the dank recesses of my
- mind & come up with more, but I make no guarantees. That was a LONG time ago.
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