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Subject: Re: IBM PC IX diskettes: reading on REA
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Date: Sun, 11-May-86 21:51:00 EDT
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Posted: Sun May 11 21:51:00 1986
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Which of the many formats of diskette that PC/IX is capable of writing do
you have?  Aside from the standard 8/9 sectors 1/2 sides variations, there
are several software variations available:

	1) PC/IX filesystems (probably not readable by other Unixes as
		filesystems, but one could write filesystem interpreting
		programs that used the diskette block device if necessary)
	2) PC-DOS filesystems (certainly readable by DOS and by any DOS
		emulation/compatibility programs)
	3) PC/IX backup/restore volumes (readable by other INTERACTIVE
		Systems IN/ix flavors, but probably not by anything else)
	4) cpio volumes (readable by any system that considers the diskette
		to be an unstructured sequential stream of data, and that
		has the same byte order as an 8086 unless the -c flag is
		used on both sides)
	5) tar volumes (tar was not distributed with PC/IX originally,
		but basically acts like cpio if it is available at all)