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Subject: Re: IBM PC IX diskettes: reading on REAL UNIX
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Date: Sat, 3-May-86 20:01:00 EDT
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Posted: Sat May  3 20:01:00 1986
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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. 
> > 
> > 				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.
> 
> ------
My previous reply offered the suspicion that the problem was due to
cpio version differences such as plagued users of the 3B2 machines
between sussessive System V releases.

There is, however, no problem in going from PC/IX cpio diskettes
used the default options for archive format to the PC6300+ System V
(at level C4) but be sure to use the proper floppy access path.
I used /dev/rdsk/f0d9dt which I linked to /dev/floppy to make it
easy to keep track.

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

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