Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!ncrlnk!ncr-sd!hp-sdd!ucsdhub!ucsd!ucbvax!PENNDRLN.BITNET!GTHEALL From: GTHEALL@PENNDRLN.BITNET (George A. Theall) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: PC/Rainbow data compatibility Message-ID: Date: 5 Oct 88 13:46:00 GMT Sender: daemon@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Organization: The Internet Lines: 36 A friend recently told me how he regularly transfers files between his PC and Rainbow with no special equipment. Perhaps others might be interested, too. In earlier messages people have spoken of using PC single-sided double-density disks and the Rainbow's MEDIACHK program to inter- change data. I foolishly believed, however, that this would only work with files no bigger than ~170K, the size of a formatted SS DD PC floppy. How untrue! The trick is to use DOS' BACKUP/ RESTORE utilities, which effectively avoids any file size limitations. From what he says, as long as you use equivalent versions of BACKUP/RESTORE on both systems, this should work. That is, PC-DOS v2.xx BACKUP and Rainbow's MS-DOS v2.xx RESTORE, will do the trick. Now, admittedly I haven't tried this, but it seems to be correct. Any comments? Criticisms? Anybody else doing this? George +------------------------------------------+---------------------------+ | E-Mail: | SnailMail: | | GTHEALL@PENNDRLN (BITNET) | Dept. of Economics | | GTHEALL@PENNDRLN.UPENN.EDU (INTERNET) | Univ. of Pennsylvania | | you!figure!it!out (UUCP) | 3718 Locust Walk /6297 | | 39 57 N, 75 11 W, 200 Alt (ICBM-NET) | Philadelphia, PA. 19104 | | | | | Disclaimer: | AT+TNet: | | "Who? Me? I didn't say that, did I?" | (215) 898-6741 | +------------------------------------------+---------------------------+ America is the only nation in history which miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to degeneration without the usual interval of civilization. - Georges Clemenceau, 1 December 1945