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From: ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP
Newsgroups: comp.org.decus
Subject: Floppy Interchange--VAX to PC
Message-ID: <25064@rochester.ARPA>
Date: Sat, 21-Feb-87 00:36:15 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb 21 00:36:15 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 21-Feb-87 16:38:13 EST
Reply-To: ciaraldi@rochester.UUCP (Mike Ciaraldi)
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Organization: U of Rochester, CS Dept, Rochester, NY
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I know someone with a Microvax with 5-1/4 inch floppy drives
(also 9-track tape and fixed disk, but that's not important).
She wants to transfer some files to an IBM PC.
We could use Kermit and transfer via a serial port,
but we were wondering if it is possible to interchange 
floppy disks in some way.

I know that you can convince a Rainbow to read single-sided
IBM PC disks, and even write to them if you format them on the IBM.
Is there any way to produce on a Microvax a disk that
the Rainbow or IBM PC can read?
Or is there a program on the Rainbow or IBM that will let
them read a  standard VAX diskette?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Mike Ciaraldi
seismo!rochester!ciaraldi