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From: jto@santra.HUT.FI (Jari Tomminen)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: net postings, questions,
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Date: 4 Sep 88 13:47:01 GMT
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In article <144@melbcae.edu.au> m206004@melbcae.edu.au writes:
>In article <795@ritcv.UUCP>, iav1917@ritcv.UUCP (alan i. vymetalik) writes:
>>    e-mail.  There hasn't been anyone complaining after I stopped posting
>>    the archives so I figure no one is getting them.
>> 
>>    Thanks,
>>    Alan
>
>	I guess they get pretty far though, Alan.
[stuff deleted...]
>Scott Sandars
[stuff deleted...]
>I hereby declare that any rainbow users who see this but don't reply to one of 
>us or at least follow up on the board to be a lowlife cretin who doesn't 
>deserve to own a IBM let alone a [d|i|g|i|t|a|l] Rainbow


OK then, by your request...

I'm afraid there are nodes that prevent those postings from
getting through.  At least I haven't seen a single archive
posting in this group since the one or two very first ones.
And that was a very (*VERY*) long time ago.

I (and other Rb-users here in Finland as well, I think) would
very much like to get those archives and see more and more
of them to be posted.  So...  LET IT BURN, ALAN!

Another thing...

I guess I have got enough requests in order to post the
3.2(185) SEDT.  If there are no complaints I will do it in
a week or two (that is: when my schedule permits).  *OR*...
If there exists any person with enough good will to post
the 3.3 SEDT I have seen to be mentioned here I will gladly
withdraw my offer (I would also like to get it...  :-).

And...  A third thing...

I asked a while ago about means to read/write/format
RX50-diskettes for PRO3xx and VAX/VMS in Rainbow.
Dale Rogers (d-rogers@edwards-2060.arpa) suggested using
a CP/M-card in a PRO.  Unfortunately I don't use CP/M and
those PROs are not under my control.  In further discussions
he pointed out that the diskette format (hard format) in all
those machines is the same but that it would be a real pain
to try to read/write the diskette without a proper file format
(file architecture).  That's because an absolute sector read
should be used and then the data be extracted and processed.
So, it seems that there's no way to do it in MS-DOS.  Thank
you, Dale, once again.

Fortunately I got a message saying that it could be done
in VMS.  There exists a pd program called VMSFLEX that does
the whole thing.  It both reads and writes Rainbow MS-DOS
diskettes.  The program is available as a VAX-Pascal source.
I haven't tried it yet but am looking forward to testing it.
At least the documentation looks very promising.

Well, I suppose that's enough for this time...

Have fun!  And please Alan, let us see the GREAT LIGHT of
FREE RAINBOW SOFTWARE here at the end of the known world too... :-)

Jari.

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