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From: stevet@ihuxl.UUCP (Turpin)
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Subject: Re: IBM PC IX diskettes: reading on REAL UNIX
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Date: Thu, 1-May-86 19:23:30 EDT
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> I have a large amount of material on diskettes written under PC IX
> on an IBM PC XT.  I find that no UNIX system, so far, can read these
> diskettes.  Does anyone have an existing package for reading PC IX
> formatted diskettes on an AT&T UNIX PC or an AT&T PC6300 PLUS or
> on any AT&T 3B2 computer?  Thanks for the help.
> 

You might try the dd command.  It is a UNIX command and is available on the
UNIX-PC.  The UNIX-PC can read regular MS-DOS diskettes, so it must have a
smart disk controller.  Also, I know that XENIX can transfer files and floppies
back and forth to MS-DOS.  Seems like PC IX should have this capability.  
If you can't read floppies, the best thing to do would be to transmit the 
info from one machine to the other.