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Subject: Re: IBM PC IX diskettes: reading on REAL UNIX
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Date: Fri, 2-May-86 21:06:55 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.
> 
> 				Rod Tulloss
> 				ihnp4!erc3ba!ret

I have been able to read PC XT format disks just fine on the
6300+ running system V. PC IX is of course a System III based
system and is as really Unix as anything you have.

If you wrote the disks with cpio be advised that AT&T changed
cpio to make it incompatible with earlier versions, not between
System III and System V but between the original System V release
and the current one. A lot of vendors got sandbagged by AT&T on 
this one.

Because of this mucking about with cpio I use a tar compatible
utility on PC IX (no, I can't provide anyone with copies).

Thos Sumner     (...ucbvax!ucsfcgl!ucsfcca.UCSF!thos)