Using downloaded software

[Daedalus]

Dandy wrote:
Oh - one thing I'd like to mention:
Years ago I got myself "CrossDos 7 gold".
With this version there are no 8.3 filename restrictions any longer.
It supports DD disks (720k) as well as HD disks (1440k) and is able to read and write PC harddrives...

This is true, but you can only read 1.44MB PC floppies if you have a HD drive. No amount of software will read a 1.44 floppy in a standard A500 drive. Incidentally, the Fat95 filesystem is free, does the very same thing as CrossDOS 7, and is available on AmiNet:
http://aminet.net/search.php?query=fat95

[Daedalus]

BGary335 wrote:
Got another question: I'm currently working with some .adf files that have odd names, and adf2disk seems to have a difficult time with such files. For example, one file I'm working with has a title that looks like this (x=letters of the file name):XXXX - XXXXX XXXXXXXX-XXXX-X.adf. When I try to run adf2disk on these files, it gives me an error that says something about not having enough commands. I assume that because of all the dashes and spaces, adf2disk thinks these are commands, not the name of the file. Is there a way I can change the name of the file so that adf2disk will recognize it?

You should be able to rename it to anything at all and usethe new name to write it to floppy, so just rename it in Workbench to XXXXX.adf and use that instead. Alternatively, to get AmigaDOS to ignore the spaces in filenames you can put it in quotes, so use "XXXX - XXXXX XXXXXXXX-XXXX-X.adf" instead.