CrossDOS/MessyDOS Info

                 From Neil Currie by email

@~Neil sent this info as a result of my plea for help last issue
@~regarding PC formatting on the Amiga and Richard helped by
@~sending a copy of MessyDOS for the library ... Sue

I hope this is helpful.  CrossDOS came with the Amiga A1200 as
part of Workbench 3.0.  It allowed you to read and write to 720k
PC disks using the 8.3 filename style.  If you wanted to use
1.44Mb disks you had to buy a new HD floppy drive.  To keep the
correct names I used to zip the files on the PC and unzip them on
the Amiga.  There is a new version called CrossDOS 7 for œ40 from
Weird Science http://www.weirdscience.co.uk/ which allows Windows
95/98 filenames.  There used to be PD versions on Aminet
http://uk.aminet.net/~aminet/ called MessySID and MessyDOS which
did the same job as CrossDOS on earlier Amigas.
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