Date   : Fri, 20 Jun 1986 18:33:48 GMT
From   : The Wumpus <aptr%ur-tut.uucp@BRL.ARPA>
Subject: Re: Superbrain Wordstar -> IBM-PC

In article <1220@brl-smoke.ARPA> @CSNET-RELAY.ARPA,@tufts.csnet:kjs@tufts.c
(kjs) writes:
>
>A colleague has all of his manuscripts entered into WORDSTAR running on
>an 8 bit CP/M SUPERBRAIN.  Now he wants to convert everything to be readable
>on an IBM PC compatible.  Are there programs for reading Superbrain
>diskettes under MSDOS?

There is a program that came with the MSDOS when you bought a Xerox 16/8 PC
that allowed you to read Xerox 820 (-II, 16/8 PC) format 5 1/4" disks, and
the standard 8" SSSD disks.  I have used it a couple of times to move stuff
from CP/m to MSDOS, but I have not found it really satisfactory because it
tends to loose some of the data in the move.

What I have found works the best is to transfer the programs from computer
to computer by connecting the modem ports of both computers together (with a
null modem in between) and then using modem programs on both machines that
support the same protocol, sending the files accross.  This can be done very
quickly if you set the baud of the modem port up to atleast 4800.  I try to
run at 19.2k, but have found that 9600 works the best.  Ussually you can
find Public Domain modem programs that support xmodem protocol for both CP/m
machines and IBM PCs.

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