Exporting disks from PC IX

[CARPENTER, ROBERT]

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I thought that PC IX could both read and WRITE PC-DOS format disks....

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[Josh Knight]

In article <5...@brl-smoke.ARPA> carp...@NBS-VMS.arpa (CARPENTER, ROBERT) writes:
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>I thought that PC IX could both read and WRITE PC-DOS format disks....
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I don't think the PC/IX I have (1.1 running on a "vanilla" 640K XT) is
anything special and it can certainly read and write DOS format files.
I've done it a lot. The PC/IX commands are dosread and doswrite,
look them up in the manual pages. If the original poster has thrown
away the PC (tch, tch, naughty, naughty ;-) and the files are CPIO,
I'd expect them to be readable. I was even able to transfer one track
of data from a PC/IX cpio diskette to a Masscomp system with twice
the track density (when you're desparate...one track at a time is
better than nothing).

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Josh Knight, IBM T.J. Watson Research
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