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From: bcw@rti.rti.org (Bruce Wright)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: Rainbow DOS recovery--HELP!
Summary: Norton on the Rainbow
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.032007.25599@rti.rti.org>
Date: 6 Mar 91 03:20:07 GMT
References: <1991Mar5.163538.213@hulaw1.harvard.edu>
Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
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In article <1991Mar5.163538.213@hulaw1.harvard.edu>, williams@hulaw1.harvard.edu writes:
> I have a Rainbow with a 10 Meg hard disc and 2 floppy 
> drives.  I am running DOS 2.1.  I erased my xywrite 
> directory by typing "del *.* fon" instead of "del *.fon". 
> (a hard lesson well learned) so,
> Is there any recovery leads any one  can help me with --
> I called DEC, DECUS, asked our local mavens, and
> a generous gentleman in Washington DC who suggested dumping 
> everything from the hard drive to floppies--
> Is there a version of Norton for this machine?
> I tried bouncing Norton UD 4.0 off the VAX to the Rainbow
> drive B:  It didn't work. 

There are several undelete programs for the Rainbow.  But I usually
use Norton's NU v 4.0 - if you use it with the /D1 or /D2 switch,
it will go to the IBM-PC BIOS or to ANSI.SYS, respectively.  If
you have Code Blue or something similar, this should be all that's
needed;  if you use /D2 even that shouldn't be necessary.  For some 
reason Norton v4.5 seems to have troubles on the Rainbow - I've never 
tried to track down why since 4.0 works just fine.

If you still have trouble, email me and I may be able to mail you
back a copy of one or another of the undelete programs ...

						Bruce C. Wright