carpenter@NBS-VMS.arpa (CARPENTER, ROBERT) (05/03/86)
xxxxx I thought that PC IX could both read and WRITE PC-DOS format disks.... ------
josh@polaris.UUCP (Josh Knight) (05/06/86)
In article <511@brl-smoke.ARPA> carpenter@NBS-VMS.arpa (CARPENTER, ROBERT) writes: > >I thought that PC IX could both read and WRITE PC-DOS format disks.... > >------ I don't think the PC/IX I have (1.1 running on a "vanilla" 640K XT) is anything special and it can certainly read and write DOS format files. I've done it a lot. The PC/IX commands are dosread and doswrite, look them up in the manual pages. If the original poster has thrown away the PC (tch, tch, naughty, naughty ;-) and the files are CPIO, I'd expect them to be readable. I was even able to transfer one track of data from a PC/IX cpio diskette to a Masscomp system with twice the track density (when you're desparate...one track at a time is better than nothing). -- Josh Knight, IBM T.J. Watson Research josh@ibm.com, josh@yktvmh.bitnet, ...!philabs!polaris!josh