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From: art@MITRE.MITRE.ORG (Art McClinton)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec.micro
Subject: Re: Converting Dec to IBM
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Date: 12 Feb 89 21:58:40 GMT
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There are many ways to do this:
1) If you are trying to go from a Rainbow Running MS-DOS to an IBM PC
with a double sided dual density drive (a PC, XT or the bottom drive
in an AT) Then the easiest way is to FORMAT a disk on the PC as a
single sided disk (use the /1 switch) and then take the disk to the
rainbow to copy files to be read on the PC.  The disk should either be
a new disk, or it should be bulk erased before if is used for this
operation as the 96 TPI heads on the rainbow can not erase the data in
a 48 TPI track.

2)If the IBM PC has a high density drive (IBM PC/AT) then the easiest
thing to do is get the public domain RX50 driver for the AT.  This
will allow you do read the Rainbow disks directly on the AT.
 
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  =-=- This note is in response to yours which follows -=-=

Anyone out there know how to convert DEC files to IBM PC?  Let me know.
Jean T.