Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!ames!amdcad!sun!pitstop!sundc!seismo!uunet!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!rodger From: rodger@comp.lancs.ac.uk (baby!!) Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro Subject: DOS on Rainbow100 Message-ID: <602@dcl-csvax.comp.lancs.ac.uk> Date: 9 Nov 88 10:25:23 GMT Reply-To: rodger@comp.lancs.ac.uk (Rodge-baby!!) Organization: Department of Computing at Lancaster University, UK. Lines: 24 Hi, I'm in need of some help/info (whats new?) - I've layed my hands on a DEC Rainbow 100 thats got a copy of DOS 2.11 - In my naive simplicity I assumed discs written by one DOS would be much akin to discs written by another. I'd figured without DEC's pathological desire to be different. Anybody out there know of any way I can get a Rainbow to read a IBM (or compatable) formatted disc? Sneaky options to format, trendy peice of PD software that reads standard DOS discs, whilst not corrupting DEC DOS disks - makes tea and plays a good hand of bridge etc :-) Cheers, Rodge. ps - I'm aware this is one of those '1000 most often asked questions' so bear with me :-) -- janet: rodger@uk.ac.lancs.comp Department of Computing arpa: rodger@comp.lancs.ac.uk University of Lancaster uucp: ...!mcvax!ukc!dcl-cs!rodger Bailrigg, Lancaster, LA1 4YR, UK