[Coco] work with .DSK files

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Joel Ewy wrote:
> John T Chasteen wrote:
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>> 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.
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>> I would like to get files off the Internet and copy them 
>> to a coco disk. Both OS9 or regular coco files.
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> 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.
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> 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; 
Actual floppies? You betcha. Was doing that about two minutes ago.....
For sure, it does work with a 1.44mb 3" on both PC & Coco - using 720k
media.....

cheers,
johnd

> and DSKINI.EXE, which can format a real floppy disk, either as a
> blank disk, or with the contents of a disk image file.
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> Other utilities exist, but these may be the most straightforward for you.
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> JCE
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>> Thanks for any help
>>
>> John
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