GTHEALL@PENNDRLN.BITNET (George A. Theall) (10/05/88)
A friend recently told me how he regularly transfers files between his PC and Rainbow with no special equipment. Perhaps others might be interested, too. In earlier messages people have spoken of using PC single-sided double-density disks and the Rainbow's MEDIACHK program to inter- change data. I foolishly believed, however, that this would only work with files no bigger than ~170K, the size of a formatted SS DD PC floppy. How untrue! The trick is to use DOS' BACKUP/ RESTORE utilities, which effectively avoids any file size limitations. From what he says, as long as you use equivalent versions of BACKUP/RESTORE on both systems, this should work. That is, PC-DOS v2.xx BACKUP and Rainbow's MS-DOS v2.xx RESTORE, will do the trick. Now, admittedly I haven't tried this, but it seems to be correct. Any comments? Criticisms? Anybody else doing this? George +------------------------------------------+---------------------------+ | E-Mail: | SnailMail: | | GTHEALL@PENNDRLN (BITNET) | Dept. of Economics | | GTHEALL@PENNDRLN.UPENN.EDU (INTERNET) | Univ. of Pennsylvania | | you!figure!it!out (UUCP) | 3718 Locust Walk /6297 | | 39 57 N, 75 11 W, 200 Alt (ICBM-NET) | Philadelphia, PA. 19104 | | | | | Disclaimer: | AT+TNet: | | "Who? Me? I didn't say that, did I?" | (215) 898-6741 | +------------------------------------------+---------------------------+ America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. - Georges Clemenceau, 1 December 1945
art@MITRE.ARPA (Art McClinton) (10/05/88)
I see not reason that your friends BACKUP/RESTORE procedure should not work.
I however must emphasize that the disks should be labeled as to the direction
and not used in the opposite direction without first degaussing and reformatting
I use ARC to compress the files that are larger than 170K. To date I have
not had a file that exceeded 170K when compressed/squeezed/packed. This
also lowers the overall number of disks.
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=-=- This note is in response to yours which follows -=-=
A friend recently told me how he regularly transfers files
between his PC and Rainbow with no special equipment. Perhaps
others might be interested, too.
In earlier messages people have spoken of using PC single-sided
double-density disks and the Rainbow's MEDIACHK program to inter-
change data. I foolishly believed, however, that this would only
work with files no bigger than ~170K, the size of a formatted
SS DD PC floppy. How untrue! The trick is to use DOS' BACKUP/
RESTORE utilities, which effectively avoids any file size
limitations. From what he says, as long as you use equivalent
versions of BACKUP/RESTORE on both systems, this should work.
That is, PC-DOS v2.xx BACKUP and Rainbow's MS-DOS v2.xx RESTORE,
will do the trick.
Now, admittedly I haven't tried this, but it seems to be correct.
Any comments? Criticisms? Anybody else doing this?
George
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+------------------------------------------+---------------------------+
America is the only nation in history which miraculously
has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without
the usual interval of civilization.
- Georges Clemenceau, 1 December 1945