CrossDOS

CrossDOS allows you to read and write to MSDOS formated disks using your standard Amiga setup.

CrossDOS Drives.

The CrossDOS drivers can be found in your sys:storage/dosdrivers drawer called PCO: and PC1:. To activate them simply move them to your sys:devs/dosdrivers drawer. This will allow you to read and write to MS-DOS formatted 720k or 1.44MB floppy disks.

When activated Workbench will show two icons for any floppy inserted into the disk drive. If a MS-DOS disk is inserted then you will see the MS-DOS icon and a DF0:??? icon. if only an Amiga formatted floppy is inserted you will see the normal icon associated with that disk.

When you open a MS-DOS formatted disk Workbench shows the contents in Show all mode.

Adding CrossDOS Drivers

To create more CrossDOS drivers simply follow the following steps:

1. Make sure the PC0: and Pc1: icons are in sys:devs/dosdrivers.
2. Open sys:devs/dosdrivers and select the PC0 Icon.
3. Select copy from the Icon menu in the Workbench tool bar at the top of the screen.
4. Select Rename from the same menu. Change the name from copy_of_PC0 to PC2 and select OK.
5. Select Information from the same menu. Change the UNIT Tool Type from UNIT=0 to UNIT=2, and press Return.
6. Select Save.

Once you have CrossDOS working you can work with MS-DOS disk directories and files in that drive just as you normally would do on the amiga.

Formatting Disks.

To format a floppy MS-DOS, place the disk in the drive click on the DF0:??? icon and select format making sure to select MS-DOS mode and not AmigaDOS mode. Other wise select the device or volume name you want formatted.

THE CrossDOS Commodity.

The CrossDOS commodity controls text options such as text filtering and text translation for CrossDOS drives.

The text box on the left hand side is for all active CrossDOS mounted Volumes.To change the settings of a specific volume select it in that box.

Text Filtering

This option filters carriage returns and end-of-file (EOF) markers from MS-DOS files.

Text Translation

The Text Translation option controls the translation between he Amiga and MS-DOS character sets where they differ.

Two different levels of Text Translation are available:

• Complete - To filter file names as well as data in the file, select the Text Translation option and make a selection in the Translation types cycle gadget.
• File Name Only - To filter only the file names, do not select the Text Translation option. However You must make a selection from the Translation Types cycle gadget.

Translation Types.

The translation Types cycle gadget allows you to select one of the following options for filtering text or translation of text.

• ASCII-7 - makes the file conform to standard ASCII text.
• INTL - Preserves international characters.
• DANSK - Filters Danish text files.
• MAC - Filters Macintosh ASCII files that have been transferred to an MS-DOS disk

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