[Coco] "OS-9 pcdos" driver

[L. Curtis Boyle]

There are couple of ways from back in the day. If you had the CC3Disk edition 11 patch, it then allowed you to use the PCDOS utility to read/write MSDOS disks (FAT12). There was a commercial solution as well that actually had a new file manager and disk driver (the file manager was called MSF, and the disk driver SDisk3), that also came with expanded “standard” utilities (like MSCOPY instead of COPY, MSFORMAT instead of FORMAT, etc.) that you let you work with both OS9 and MSDOS disks directly. It was much faster than the CC3Disk/PCDOS combination, but took a lot more system RAM. But we did use it at work. I believe it was from the company DP Johnson.

L. Curtis Boyle
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> On Jul 16, 2018, at 6:49 PM, Stephen Fischer <SFischer1 at Mindspring.com> wrote:
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> Someone on Facebook is looking for an OS-9 driver to read / write MS-DOS disks. ( late 80s or early 90s )
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> I know about reading / writing DECB and FLEX disks on OS-9 having used those drivers.
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> But a MS-DOS driver for OS-9 my failing memory does not remember.
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> SHF
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