From: CURRENTM@CARLETON.EDU (Michael Current)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.8bit
Subject: UTIL, ATARIO, SR
Date: 3 Sep 92 21:34:27 GMT

For those of us that have been long confused by the various versions of Atari
disk readers for PCs, here's what I discovered.  It turns out there are several
copies of the same thing at the archive.

The various 8-bit Atari disk readers for PCs on the atari.archive:

util.arc
     atario.asm
     READ.ME
     util.c
     util.exe
     util.txt

pcxfer.arc
     atario.asm
     pcxfer2.txt
     pcxfer.txt
     READ.ME
     util.c
     util.exe

ataridsk.arc
     atario.asm
     blurb.txt
     READ.ME
     util.c
     util.exe
All of the above are the same UTIL by Charles Marslett.
They are identical copies of util.exe, util.c, atario.asm and READ.ME
Reads/Writes DD Atari disks.

dskutil.arc
     ATARIO.ASM
     READ.ME
     UTIL.C
     UTIL.EXE
This appears to be an updated version of UTIL by Charles Marslett.
Util.exe, util.c and atario.asm are larger than before; READ.ME is unchanged.
Reads/Writes DD Atari disks.

atario21.arc
     ATARIO.DOC
     ATARIO.EXE
     ATARIO.PAS
This is ATARIO by Dave Brandman, modified by Kevin White.
Reads DD Atari disks, does not write them.

sr.arc
     SR.DOC
     SR.EXE
This is SpartaRead by Oscar Fowler.  Reads DD SpartaDOS disks.

Here are the details:

phobos> arc v ataridsk.arc
Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC
============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====
READ.ME            986  Crunched   32%       672  27 Nov 89   5:13p  08be
atario.asm        7101  Crunched   47%      3768  27 Nov 89   5:13p  9714
blurb.txt          934  Crunched   36%       598  27 Nov 89   5:13p  6769
util.c           16321  Crunched   58%      7007  27 Nov 89   5:13p  89fa
util.exe         15263  Crunched   20%     12211  27 Nov 89   5:15p  af1e
        ====  ========            ====  ========
Total      5     40605             41%     24256
phobos> arc v pcxfer.arc
Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC
============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====
READ.ME            986  Crunched   32%       672   2 Jun 88  10:34p  08be
atario.asm        7101  Crunched   47%      3768   2 Jun 88  10:34p  9714
pcxfer.txt        1077  Crunched   27%       792  26 Dec 90   9:01a  b554
pcxfer2.txt       3975  Crunched   42%      2335  26 Dec 90  10:06a  b47b
util.c           16321  Crunched   58%      7007   2 Jun 88  10:34p  89fa
util.exe         15263  Crunched   11%     13614   2 Jun 88  10:37p  af1e
        ====  ========            ====  ========
Total      6     44723             37%     28188
phobos> arc v util.arc
Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC
============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====
atario.asm        7101  Crunched   47%      3768   2 Jun 88  10:34p  9714
READ.ME            986  Crunched   32%       672   2 Jun 88  10:34p  08be
util.c           16321  Crunched   58%      7007   2 Jun 88  10:34p  89fa
util.exe         16384  Crunched   15%     13942   6 Jun 90  12:23p  9376
util.txt          2700  Crunched   28%      1951   6 Jun 90  12:25p  3539
        ====  ========            ====  ========
Total      5     43492             38%     27340

phobos> arc v dskutil.arc
Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC
============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====
ATARIO.ASM        7562  Crunched   50%      3842  27 Feb 87   8:28a  c50f
READ.ME           1017  Crunched   34%       679  30 May 88   0:03a  5969
UTIL.C           20246  Squashed   60%      8288  15 Jun 89   1:04a  e2e1
UTIL.EXE         16613  Crunched   21%     13236  15 Jun 89   1:05a  c780
        ====  ========            ====  ========
Total      4     45438             43%     26045

phobos> arc v atario21.arc
Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC
============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====
ATARIO.DOC        5815  Crunched   50%      2961   6 Sep 91   1:00p  adfd
ATARIO.EXE       13232  Crunched   22%     10434   6 Sep 91   1:00p  91c5
ATARIO.PAS       18847  Crunched   61%      7461   6 Sep 91   1:00p  b6ea
        ====  ========            ====  ========
Total      3     37894             45%     20856

phobos> arc v sr.arc
Name          Length    Stowage    SF   Size now  Date       Time    CRC
============  ========  ========  ====  ========  =========  ======  ====
SR.DOC            9459  Crunched   46%      5130  31 Mar 92   6:28p  f911
SR.EXE           32155  Crunched   25%     24170  23 Feb 92   9:07p  6f65
        ====  ========            ====  ========
Total      2     41614             30%     29300
phobos> 

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