Path: utzoo!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!usc!wuarchive!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!magnus.ircc.ohio-state.edu!csn!datran2!smb From: smb@data.com (Steven M. Boker) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: Merits of DOS vs NeXT SCSI HD Formats ? Message-ID: <1991Mar8.234631.795@data.com> Date: 8 Mar 91 23:46:31 GMT References: <1991Mar8.083953.11933@agate.berkeley.edu> <1991Mar8.104541.8592@wam.umd.edu> Distribution: usa Organization: Data Transforms, Inc. Lines: 20 >In article <1991Mar8.104541.8592@wam.umd.edu> mikec@wam.umd.edu (Michael D. Callaghan) writes: > I spoke with someone yesterday at Insignia Solutions, and was told that > SoftPC ships on 1.44meg DOS-format floppies. The reason, he said, was so > that folks like me, who don't have a NeXT floppy, can use my IBM > compatible to load the software onto my Cube (via ftp/nfs/whatever). > I just spoke with a friend of mine who just received his free copy of Improv. He's a cube owner and doesn't have a 2.88 yet. He tried to read the floppies using a networked PC but did not have any luck. I'm in the same boat when my copy gets here. Cube and OD with lots of PC 3.5 drives available to the net, but no 2.88 SCSI Steve -- #====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====# # Steve Boker # En Vino Kaos # # smb@data.com # En Kaos Veritas # #====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#====#