#: 10194 S9/Utilities
    10-Apr-91  20:05:21
Sb: #10113-#pc xfer utils
Fm: Mike Stephenson 71655,415
To: Brother Jeremy, CSJW 76477,142 (X)

~ Brother Jeremy;

   Both  disks have to have the same number of 'sides' for  PCDOS to  work 
properly.  This is not a restriction of PCDOS,  but  is hampered  by the COCO
single sided drive. (It's hard to read  the 'opposite'  side  of an IBM double
sided drive, when there is  no head to read it on a COCO single-sided drive
.)

   Once  upon a time I had single sided COCO OS9 40 track drives. I got along
fine using Bob Santy's PCDOS fine, IF I formatted the MS-DOG disks first as
single sided.

  eq. (assuming a two floppy IBM system) . .

     A:>FORMAT B:/1   {the /1 means format as single sided}

   Then  I  could . . .

     OS9:PCDOS -GET /D0 FOOFOO.TXT  /DX/FOOFOO.TXT

just fine.  I even used the COCO 40 trk disks as 'flippys' on the IBM just
fine.

   'Flippy'  meaning I punched another write protect slot on  the other  side
of the floppy, and added another 'read hole' opposite the  one already there. 
Then I formatted the disk on the IBM  as single sided, flipped it over and
formatted the other side of the disk.

   This  worked  great for transferring files and allowed  me  to maximize the
space used for transfers.

Enjoy;

Mike



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