Article 41112 of comp.sys.cbm: Xref: undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca comp.sys.cbm:41112 Newsgroups: comp.sys.cbm Path: undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca!csbruce From: csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca (Craig Bruce) Subject: Re: 1581 MSDOS ? Message-ID: Sender: news@undergrad.math.uwaterloo.ca (news spool owner) Nntp-Posting-Host: ccnga.uwaterloo.ca Organization: University of Waterloo, Canada (eh!) References: <5dd_9508101609@gigo.com> <40jsp4$dfp@horus.infinet.com> Date: Sun, 13 Aug 1995 19:24:14 GMT Michael Bendure writes: > I was trying to use Little Red reader the other day. I have a 1581 >with some Commodore text files on it and I wanted to transfer them to >IBM formatted 360k disks on my 1571. I keep getting all sorts of errors >when going from the 1581 CBM format to 1571 IBM format. > > Is there a way to format a 1571 disk to the IBM format using Little >Red Reader? If not, would it be better to go from the 1571 CBM to 1581 >IBM? LRR is not capable of formatting disks. You will need a PC or some other DOS-reader program to do that. Transferring files in either direction (71-->81, 81-->71) should work equally well. You do, of course, set up the devices for LRR correctly, right? (use 'M' to set the MS-DOS device number and type (71/81) and use 'F' to set the CBM device number). You also have version 2.00, right? Your MS-DOS disks also have to be formatted with a 12-bit FAT. >I couldn't understand why I got all these errors and why the disks >kept getting corrupted. After about 5 disks, I gave up. :( _WHAT_ errors were you getting? ^^^^ (People always tell me that a program craps out, but they never see fit to tell me HOW it craps out. "Dr., some unspecified part of my body hurts in some unspecified way; please treat it."). Keep on Hackin'! -Craig Bruce csbruce@ccnga.uwaterloo.ca "Real Users are afraid they'll break the machine -- but they're never afraid to break your face." --fortune