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Re: Apple2 CP/M file transfer
In article <19970118141726353012@dempson.actrix.gen.nz>,
David Empson <dempson@actrix.gen.nz> wrote:
> Paul Schlyter <pausch@electra.saaf.se> wrote:
>
> There is at least one more option: a shareware program called
> "Chameleon", which can copy files betwen CP/M and ProDOS disks (as
> well as DOS 3.3 and Pascal). Chameleon runs under ProDOS, so all
> you need is an Apple II running ProDOS with a 5.25" drive, a copy
> of Chameleon, and a serial port with communication software to transfer
> the file to a PC.
For old "dinosaurs" like me, who never really used ProDOS (I could never
see the need for subdirectories on a 140K floppy), there was a program
named CPMXFER, distributed with Microsoft's SoftCard, which enabled
you to transfer CP/M files to DOS disks.
I went the CP/M route instead -- therefore I got a decent transfer
program implemented for Apple CP/M (Kermit-80 v4). I never ever
had half as decent a program running on DOS.
Once I even wrote a program (in Turbo Pascal for CP/M) which allowed
transfer of Apple Pascal files directly to CP/M, without the need to use
DOS or ProDOS somewhere in between.
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