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From: josh@polaris.UUCP (Josh Knight)
Newsgroups: net.micro
Subject: Re: Exporting disks from PC IX
Message-ID: <519@polaris.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 5-May-86 22:44:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: polaris.519
Posted: Mon May  5 22:44:30 1986
Date-Received: Thu, 8-May-86 07:35:21 EDT
References: <511@brl-smoke.ARPA>
Reply-To: josh@polaris.UUCP (Josh Knight)
Organization: IBM Research, Yorktown Heights, N.Y.
Lines: 20
Keywords: PC/IX file transfer
Summary: Yes, PC/IX can read AND write PC DOS format diskettes

In article <511@brl-smoke.ARPA> carpenter@NBS-VMS.arpa (CARPENTER, ROBERT) writes:
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>I thought that PC IX could both read and WRITE PC-DOS format disks....
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I don't think the PC/IX I have (1.1 running on a "vanilla" 640K XT) is
anything special and it can certainly read and write DOS format files.
I've done it a lot.  The PC/IX commands are dosread and doswrite, 
look them up in the manual pages.  If the original poster has thrown
away the PC (tch, tch, naughty, naughty ;-) and the files are CPIO, 
I'd expect them to be readable.  I was even able to transfer one track 
of data from a PC/IX cpio diskette to a Masscomp system with twice
the track density (when you're desparate...one track at a time is
better than nothing).

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	Josh Knight, IBM T.J. Watson Research
 josh@ibm.com, josh@yktvmh.bitnet,  ...!philabs!polaris!josh