m206004@melbcae.edu.au (09/03/88)
In article <795@ritcv.UUCP>, iav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik) writes: > e-mail. There hasn't been anyone complaining after I stopped posting > the archives so I figure no one is getting them. > > Thanks, > Alan I guess they get pretty far though, Alan. I get them and that means that at least the following nodes also get them. By the way if all you needed was complaints to post more archives... Damn it man where are all those archives you said you'd be posting. You mentioned in your first posting that they'd be regular as clockwork, well, hmmmmm? ~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~~- Scott Sandars Melbourne College of Advanced Education Melbourne, Vic, Aust. YES A BLOODY VMS SITE!!! M206004@lvax.melbcae.edu.au ~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~~-~~~~~~~~~- P.S.: You know me Alan so please take the complaint as jest. But I know many people would welcome more postings. P.P.S.: Oh, yeah. Here are those nodes. If anyone recognizes themselves but doesn't get the stuff give me a 'hoy'. lvax.melbcae.edu.au munnari.oz.au pyramid pyramid.pyramid.com ames.arc.nasa.gov sol.cs.rochester.edu ritcv.RIT (Recognise the first and last?) I hereby declare that any rainbow users who see this but don't reply to one of us or at least follow up on the board to be a lowlife cretin who doesn't deserve to own a IBM let alone a [d|i|g|i|t|a|l] Rainbow
jto@santra.HUT.FI (Jari Tomminen) (09/04/88)
In article <144@melbcae.edu.au> m206004@melbcae.edu.au writes: >In article <795@ritcv.UUCP>, iav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik) writes: >> e-mail. There hasn't been anyone complaining after I stopped posting >> the archives so I figure no one is getting them. >> >> Thanks, >> Alan > > I guess they get pretty far though, Alan. [stuff deleted...] >Scott Sandars [stuff deleted...] >I hereby declare that any rainbow users who see this but don't reply to one of >us or at least follow up on the board to be a lowlife cretin who doesn't >deserve to own a IBM let alone a [d|i|g|i|t|a|l] Rainbow OK then, by your request... I'm afraid there are nodes that prevent those postings from getting through. At least I haven't seen a single archive posting in this group since the one or two very first ones. And that was a very (*VERY*) long time ago. I (and other Rb-users here in Finland as well, I think) would very much like to get those archives and see more and more of them to be posted. So... LET IT BURN, ALAN! Another thing... I guess I have got enough requests in order to post the 3.2(185) SEDT. If there are no complaints I will do it in a week or two (that is: when my schedule permits). *OR*... If there exists any person with enough good will to post the 3.3 SEDT I have seen to be mentioned here I will gladly withdraw my offer (I would also like to get it... :-). And... A third thing... I asked a while ago about means to read/write/format RX50-diskettes for PRO3xx and VAX/VMS in Rainbow. Dale Rogers (d-rogers@edwards-2060.arpa) suggested using a CP/M-card in a PRO. Unfortunately I don't use CP/M and those PROs are not under my control. In further discussions he pointed out that the diskette format (hard format) in all those machines is the same but that it would be a real pain to try to read/write the diskette without a proper file format (file architecture). That's because an absolute sector read should be used and then the data be extracted and processed. So, it seems that there's no way to do it in MS-DOS. Thank you, Dale, once again. Fortunately I got a message saying that it could be done in VMS. There exists a pd program called VMSFLEX that does the whole thing. It both reads and writes Rainbow MS-DOS diskettes. The program is available as a VAX-Pascal source. I haven't tried it yet but am looking forward to testing it. At least the documentation looks very promising. Well, I suppose that's enough for this time... Have fun! And please Alan, let us see the GREAT LIGHT of FREE RAINBOW SOFTWARE here at the end of the known world too... :-) Jari. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jari Tomminen, Computing Centre | jto@santra.hut.FI, jto@fingate.BITNET Helsinki Univ. of Technology | Tel: + 358 0 451 2448 -------------------------------------------------------------------------------
eileenp@teklds.TEK.COM (Eileen Phelan) (09/07/88)
In article <144@melbcae.edu.au> m206004@melbcae.edu.au writes: >In article <795@ritcv.UUCP>, iav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik) writes: >> e-mail. There hasn't been anyone complaining after I stopped posting >> the archives so I figure no one is getting them. ... >(Recognise the first and last?) >I hereby declare that any rainbow users who see this but don't reply to one of >us or at least follow up on the board to be a lowlife cretin who doesn't >deserve to own a IBM let alone a [d|i|g|i|t|a|l] Rainbow Well, I'm here, and I have a Rainbow, but I'm not sure I'm enough of a user to qualify :-) Eileen Phelan eileenp@teklds.TEK.COM f o r P n e w s
efb@suned1.UUCP (Everett F. Batey II) (09/11/88)
In article <144@melbcae.edu.au> m206004@melbcae.edu.au writes: >In article <795@ritcv.UUCP>, iav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik) writes: >> e-mail. There hasn't been anyone complaining after I stopped posting >> the archives so I figure no one is getting them. Two questions always bother me whether I see offerings of programs in VMS or DEC.MICRO. Most offerors know what the program is / does / how to reconstitute the as-sent. I usually lack that info. All I have is Kermit to move from my Sun or VAX onto RB-100, then on arrival, I have the 8088 assembler. It would be very much appreciated if someone published from time to time a compendium of prog name, use, size, tools to rebuild, what/where pub-domain tools can be found to rebuild, (e.g. BOO files, ... , public MS-C, whatever and where if anywhere these are archived? That may be a bit much to request. The files are not going to be enjoyed, nor the author agrandised, if slow-poke's like me doing 20 other things, cant figure what to do nor how to do with the offerings. Is there a RB-100 Specific Kermit since 2.29.1 (4 Jul 86)? What happened to the two guys who were working on the RB-100 upgrades to Kermit-MS? I found that the fellow who had worked at Basic American Foods in Stockton, CA, has moved on. -- suned1!efb@elroy.JPL.Nasa.Gov sun!tsunami!suned1!efb efbatey@NSWSES.ARPA Any statements / opinions made here are mine, alone, not those of the United States, the DoD, the Navy, the Congress, the Judiciary, nor ...