Acorn Master Compact utility to copy files between ADFS and DOS?

[RobC]

I stumbled across a picture of the front cover of Olivetti Prodest User issue 4 on eBay today. It mentioned DOS emulation which caught my attention.

Finding at least part of the magazine on the Internet Archive, it seems that there was an Acorn developed utility to transfer files between ADFS and DOS:

Anyone ever seen or heard of this before? It doesn't seem to be on the Prodest 128S Welcome disk...

[james]

Questo pagina Google ha trovato sul “MS-DOS COPY FILES”. How good’s your Italian?

http://hierax.altervista.org/prodest/docs/msdos.pdf

There’s nothing obvious in the article about the publisher or whether distributed as ROM or disc etc

Also is this, fruitless, search from 20 years ago
https://it.comp.software.emulatori.nark ... latore-dos which Google translates as https://it-comp-software-emulatori-nark ... r_pto=wapp

Though it does suggest it was distributed on floppy.

[RobC]

There’s nothing obvious in the article about the publisher or whether distributed as ROM or disc etc

The screenshot shows "(c) 1986 Acorn" so it looks like an in-house utility.

I don't remember hearing about it in any of the UK Acorn magazines so maybe it was something that got sent to Olivetti and half leaked out?

[BeebMaster]

The only thing I know about is getfile and putfile on the Master 512 which transfer files from BBC filing systems to DOS Plus. Maybe this is similar to those utilities with more of a front-end added on.