[Coco] work with .DSK files

[Joel Ewy]

John T Chasteen wrote:
> I still don't have the DriveWire problem solved and I want 
> to e-mail anyone that has used a PC with a regular coco
> 5.25 in disk drive.
>
> I would like to get files off the Internet and copy them 
> to a coco disk. Both OS9 or regular coco files.
>
>   
I'm sure I've read what your setup is but I don't remember.  Do you have
the same physical drive type on PC and CoCo?  Assuming that's the case,
you might have the best luck with the PORT.EXE program that came with
Jeff Vavasour's CoCo emulators.  I believe it is still available for
free on the Internet.  This will only work in DOS or Win9x.  IIRC you
have a '486 of some sort that probably has an appropriate OS.  If not,
you'll probably have to boot some version of DOS from a floppy.

In the emulator package you should find both PORT.EXE, which allows you
to copy files in and out of disk images and, I think, actual floppy
disks; and DSKINI.EXE, which can format a real floppy disk, either as a
blank disk, or with the contents of a disk image file.

Other utilities exist, but these may be the most straightforward for you.

JCE
> Thanks for any help
>
> John
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