albani@cadlab.sublink.ORG (albani) (04/26/91)
Hi! I've bought a second hand DEC Rainbow 100 with CP/M & MsDos 2.05 I use that beast as a VT102 terminal (so NO VT100 emulation... :-) But sometime, when my bigger machine is polling FidoNet (no multitask with BNU & Binkley...), I would like to editing something on the Rainbow. But the problem is the disk format: incompatible with my other machine. How to set up a link (via serial cable) with my 386 in CP/M (I like RED)? I remember something about PIP... Bye, Lanfranco -- Lanfranco Albani - CAD.LAB s.p.a., v. Stalingrado 45, Bologna, Italia Email: (work:) albani@cadlab.sublink.org, (home:) bob@allan.sublink.org Phone: (work:) ++39 (51) 371099, (home:) ++39 (51) 727372; Fax: ++39 (51) 366964 (work only), Fidonet: 2:332/401.4 (home only).
rrezaian@austral.UUCP (Russell Rezaian) (05/02/91)
In article <796@cadlab.sublink.ORG> albani@cadlab.sublink.ORG (albani) writes: > >Hi! > >I've bought a second hand DEC Rainbow 100 with CP/M & MsDos 2.05 >I use that beast as a VT102 terminal (so NO VT100 emulation... :-) > >But sometime, when my bigger machine is polling FidoNet (no multitask >with BNU & Binkley...), I would like to editing something on the Rainbow. > >But the problem is the disk format: incompatible with my other machine. Is even the MS-Dos format incompatible? >How to set up a link (via serial cable) with my 386 in CP/M (I like RED)? >I remember something about PIP... [.sig deleted] You could try (On the dec): PIP A:FOO.BAR=TTY: and on the PC end: COPY FOO.BAR COM1: (Or whatever the port is called...) The thing to remember is that a Ctrl-Z must be sent as an EOF to get PIP to close the file. It would be simple to try to get the disks compatible, but if you can't this should work. -- Russell Rezaian | rrezaian@austral.UUCP P.O. Box 479 | rrezaian@amiganet.chi.il.us Naperville, Il. 60566-0479 | "One is best punished for one's USA | Virtues." Nietzsche.
imp@solbourne.com (Warner Losh) (05/03/91)
In article <796@cadlab.sublink.ORG> albani@cadlab.sublink.ORG (albani) writes: >>But the problem is the disk format: incompatible with my other machine. In article <rrezaian.1225@austral.UUCP> rrezaian@austral.UUCP (Russell Rezaian) writes: >Is even the MS-Dos format incompatible? As some other people have pointed out, the Rainbow can read single sided PC disks (180K, oh boy. Stop don't tease me like that). It can also write to freshly formatted (on the PC) singled sided disks with some degree of reliability (eg, don't delete it off the Rainbow until it is on the PC), but since you want to go the other way, that is cool. There is something called I-Drive that will allow you to connect a real PC disk (5.25 or 3.5, no HD) to the Rainbow. It costs $$$$. There is also a freely available 3.5" driver for the Rainbow available, but you need to get your own 3.5" floppy and install it yourself. Look at the announcement that I'll be posting to comp.sys.dec.micro tomorrow for details. Warner -- Warner Losh imp@Solbourne.COM Does this mean we can't use your phone?