Re: Apple DOS 3.2 help! HOW?

[pausch@saaf.se (Paul Schlyter)]

In article <H8fU5.159$c55.2067@dca1-nnrp2.news.digex.net>,
Frank Townsend <ftownsen@iamdigex.net> wrote:
 
> Oh?
> 
> Read *The DOS Manual" reverse of the preface page, and page 192-193.
> 
> The authors are consistent in their use of the terms convert and
> conversion.  In fact, I copied the language virtually verbatim.
 
OK
 
In Apple CP/M there were two utilities, APDOS and CPMXFER, which
transferred files between Apple DOS 3.3 and Apple CP/M disks.
APDOC was run from CP/M and transferred files to CP/M disks, while
CPMXFER was run from Apple DOS and transferred files to Apple DOS.
The docs describing them used the term "file transfer", not "file
conversion".
 
Now, how come it's a "conversion" to transfer a file from a DOS 3.2
to a DOS 3.3 floppy, but not a conversion to transfer it between
DOS 3.3 and CP/M ??????????????????

But I'm not really surprised -- this isn't the only case where
Apple have invented their own terminology.
 
 
> Whoops!  Now, I suppose you're going to turn me in for plagiarism . . .
> 
> 
> Frank
>  . . . .preparing for a fusillade of exclamation points in Baltimore.
> 
> 
>>> "Paul Schlyter" <pausch@saaf.se> wrote in message
>>> news:8vqgtp$g97$1@merope.saaf.se...
> 
> 
>> What is converted though is the low-level format of the storage of
>> the files: it is indeed converted from 5+3 nibblization to 6+2
>> nibblization.  However, unless one deals directly with that low-level
>> representation, one doesn't usually refer to this as "conversion".
 
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