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From: "Phil" <accession@...>

> Thinking about it more, I've realised that something like a standard MIDI
> file is well, a standard MIDI file. So my next question was "Can a PC read
> Atari formatted disks?" and the answer apparently is "Yes".

Er, the answer is "no". An Atari can read and write MS-DOS formatted disks,
however, since the only difference between MS-DOS and Atari formatted disks
is the media decriptor byte (indeed, one byte on the entire disk).

I have no doubt that various tools and/or patches exist on the Atari
platform to fix this, and perhaps more modern PC operating systems can read
Atari disks.

- Peter