Date   : Tue, 24 Feb 1987 07:14:52 GMT
From   : Ari Davidow <ari@well.uucp>
Subject: Re: cpm -> msdos

In article <4602@brl-adm.ARPA> Woodie@DOCKMASTER.arpa (Paul E. Woodie) writes:

>In response to the request for a program to convert from cpm disk to
>msdos disk, I'll volunteer the short turbo pascal program I wrote to run
>on a pc clone.  This program, running on an ibmpc, will read a cpm disk,
>formatted by an Osborne (SSDD) and write in msdos format.  I haven't
>tried it on large files, but since the source is pascal, it should
>(hopefully) be easy enough to modify, if needed.

There are several commercial programs that will handle conversion from
various CP/M formats to MS-DOS.  The best is probably UNIORM, by
Micro Solutions.  It will not only let you read/write/format a variety
of CP/M formats, but will let you read those disks in your MS-DOS
computer as if they were native MS-DOS diskettes.  Other good ones
are Media Master, and Xenocopy.  Note that for high density or single
density formats you need a drive capable of reading them, and double
ditto for 8" formats--usually you need a special controller (which,
for instance, MicroSolutions also sells).