lee@eel (05/12/86)
Which of the many formats of diskette that PC/IX is capable of writing do you have? Aside from the standard 8/9 sectors 1/2 sides variations, there are several software variations available: 1) PC/IX filesystems (probably not readable by other Unixes as filesystems, but one could write filesystem interpreting programs that used the diskette block device if necessary) 2) PC-DOS filesystems (certainly readable by DOS and by any DOS emulation/compatibility programs) 3) PC/IX backup/restore volumes (readable by other INTERACTIVE Systems IN/ix flavors, but probably not by anything else) 4) cpio volumes (readable by any system that considers the diskette to be an unstructured sequential stream of data, and that has the same byte order as an 8086 unless the -c flag is used on both sides) 5) tar volumes (tar was not distributed with PC/IX originally, but basically acts like cpio if it is available at all)