GTHEALL@PENNDRLN.BITNET (George A. Theall) (08/20/88)
In reply to Rich's messages, no, turning MEDIACHK ON and
then writing to a SS/DD PC floppy does not work on all Rainbows.
However, I have used this reliably on **my** Rainbow for a
couple of years to transfer files to/from an AT. One word of
caution - NEVER erase files on the disk; instead, once the disk
is full, reformat it on a PC. It seems that the Rainbow is capable
of writing files OK to the SS/DD disk, but not erasing them.
Perhaps ERASE (or DEL) does not first determine what type of
floppy is being used.
SEDT is available for the Rainbow. We have it here in our
pd library. I don't know whether our copy is the most recent
version, though, since it probably came from DEC MARLBORO, which
shut down over a year ago. Anyway, if you have a modem, try calling
some Rainbow oriented bbs's. Penn's Landing here in Philadelphia
has a copy (version 3.1B). This board's at (215) 898-8511, 8N1,
24 hours a day, supporting XMODEM transfer. SEDT is located in
the Rainbow files area, and is called SEDTV31B.ARC. It's about
162K.
Another editor you might check out is microEMACS, which
has a Rainbow-specific version. Multiple buffers, multiple
windows, completely redefinable keys, macros, ... it's a
truly great programmer's editor.
George
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