CrossDOS Demo

September 12, 1996

This file describes the CrossDOS demo. Only some of utilities in the commercial product are distributed in the demo version.

The demo is a READ ONLY version of the CrossDOS FileSystem. It also will only allow access to the floppy drives. Access to Hard Drives have been disabled.

Requirements to operate this DEMO:

AmigaDOS 2.0 or higher

---AND--- Standard Amiga drive to access MS-DOS 720K disks.

---OR--- Amiga high-density drive to access MS-DOS 1.44M and 720K disks.

Download CrossDOS_Demo.lha

If you enjoy the demo product and would like to order the full version of CrossDOS, please use the "Order_Form" program. Fill out all the information and send it to the mailing address for CONSULTRON which is displayed at the end of the "Order_Form" program. Prices are listed on main CrossDOS page.

RUNNING THE CrossDOS DEMO

To run the CrossDOS demo, double-click on the Mount'Em icon. This will mount the floppy drives as PC0:, PC1:, PC2: and PC3:. (Please keep the files together since this demo requires it).

FEATURES IN THE COMMERCIAL VERSION

For those unfamiliar with the CrossDOS product, here is a list of some of the features that CrossDOS supports:

MS-DOS formatted disks are supported with following hardware:

• Low-density, 720K floppies with standard Amiga floppy drives.
• High-density, 1.44M floppies with an Amiga-compatible high-density drive.
• Hard drives with the appropriate Amiga hard drive controller.

Other features:

• Amiga <-> MS-DOS translation of international text characters.
• Disk changes are sensed automatically (if the drive provides the proper hardware signal).
• Utilities to format, copy and check the integrity of MS-DOS disks.
• Not copy protected.

FEATURES DISABLED IN THE DEMO VERSION

• All writing has been disabled in the demo version this includes formatting of floppies.
• Access to MS-DOS Hard Drives.
• Amiga <-> MS-DOS translation of international text characters since the CrossDOS commodity is not included.
  

UTILITIES IN COMMERCIAL VERSION

There are some support utilities that are included with the CrossDOS product. The utilities and a brief description are:

CrossDOS commodity-The CrossDOS commodity allows the user to optionally translate MS-DOS text characters to or from Amiga text characters or strip/add end-of-line carriage returns to MS-DOS text.

ConfigDisk - A utility to configure CrossDOS devices. It can create a mountfile describing the MS-DOS disk to the Amiga OS. It is used primarily to configure MS-DOS hard drives.

DiskChk - This utility attempts to check and read validity of any disk and report any errors.

DiskChg - This utility forces a disk change on the specified device. This command is useful for forcing a disk change on some remove hard drive partitions which lack the hardware or software supporting automatic disk changes.

Dr_CrossDOS - Dr_CrossDOS is designed to help you diagnose possible problems using CrossDOS should the need arise.

Also included are Mount, Format, and DiskCopy which can replace older system utilities.

GENERAL USE OF CrossDOS

Once CrossDOS is mounted, it should automatically sense any MS-DOS you insert in one of the Amiga floppy drives. You can then use i as you would the devices DF0:, DF1:, DF2: or DF2:.

Please note: This version of CrossDOS supports the 8.3 file and directory naming convention of MS-DOS.

CONSULTRON CrossDOS CrossMAC