Date   : Sat, 05 Sep 1992 23:06:54 IST
From   : "Jacques J. Goldberg" <PHR00JG%TECHNION.bitnet@TAUNIVM.TAU.AC.IL>
Subject: Re: INFO-CPM Digest V92 #92

On Fri, 4 Sep 1992 13:15:13 MDT <INFO-CPM-REQUEST@WSMR-SIMTEL20.ARMY.MIL> said:
>
>Date: 4 Sep 92 16:15:28 GMT
>From:
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>deccrl!news.crl.dec.com!news!nntpd.lkg.dec.com!atom.enet.dec.com!opalka@decwrl.
> dec.com  (Bill Opalka)
>Subject: Re: The easiest way to convert formats
>Message-ID: <1992Sep4.161528.16851@nntpd.lkg.dec.com>
>
>|>
>|>May I suggest that the easiest way to convert formats (I do it quite
>|>often) is to execute the job on one of those PC's which are anyway
>|>idle anywhere.  There is a program at the Simtel PC archive and its
>|>replica named 22DSK that does it splendidly. It reads/write just about
>|>any format from ready made tables, and if you have one very strange
>|>format you can expand the table for your case. It won't work with hard
>|>sectored diskettes nor with diskettes written with the Motorola
>|>controller chip found on the old timer Commodore C-64 or Apples.
>|>
>|>Regards - Jacques
>|>
>
>I suggest that if you still have your CPM machine up and running, why
not use a
> communication program to do the transfer.  More than likely it will be
easiler
> than getting another piece of software and it should be fairly quick.
Many CPM
> boxes will allow you to run the comm port a 9600 or 19200 (of course KAYPROs
> are the exception). I've used this approach for years and I've been very
> successful at it.  Rarely have I not been able to move files from one machine
> to another. Now if your CPM box nolonger works,
> than try the software approach but if you want something quick and dirty use
> a communication program.
>/Bill
     Sure, Bill, except that you made an implicit assumption which in my
case does not work: my Z80 CP/M Lobo is my HOME workhorse, while there is
a PC on my OFFICE desk. To follow your recommendation I would need to leave
the PC powered up at all times, to inflige a modem to any person calling me
when I am out of office, to deny phone calls to my family, and to work much
slower than you say with the old 1200 bauds modems which I own. Instead, when
I need a copy here and there, 22DSK on the PC does it instantly!
By the way in the CP/M archives at SIMTEL20 (not MSDOS, CP/M), there IS a
program that works very well on my Lobo to read/write in PC-compatible
format, I just forgot its name.
  / Jacques