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Rainbow EchoMail Digest                     Jan 12, 1990

In this issue:
  COMMUNICATION PORT ADDRES
  RE: GATEWAY                    (2 messages)
  PROBLEM WITH HARD DRIVE
  UUCP/INTERNET
  RE: C COMPILERS FOR 100A


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Date:     01-08-90 (20:50)
To:       ALL
Subject:  COMMUNICATION PORT ADDRES
From:     DAVE SPAULDING

I have a friend that is trying to run TELIX on his rainbow.  Everything
runs fine, except it can't find his com port.  It seems that the rainbows
com port is not the same as the IBM default.

Is there anyone that knows what the address is, or a method to determine
where it is?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

DAVE SPAULDING

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* Origin: FOG-LINE, Reg 14 REC, 515-964-7937 (Opus 1:290/627)

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Date:     01-09-90 (23:51)
To:       FRANK MALLORY
Subject:  RE: GATEWAY
From:     CARL HOUSEMAN

re: I have a feeling that comp.sys.dec will have heavy Unix orientation

I think comp.os.vms is what you're looking for.

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* Origin: Silver Bullet - Silver Spring, Maryland - 301-622-2247 (Opus 1:109/123

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Date:     01-10-90 (07:35)
To:       CARL HOUSEMAN
Subject:  RE: GATEWAY
From:     FRANK MALLORY

> re: I have a feeling that comp.sys.dec will have heavy
> Unix orientation
>
> I think comp.os.vms is what you're looking for.

Thanks, Carl; I'll get that one instead of or in addition to comp.sys.dec.

Unlike the Fido echoes, bringing the newsgroups here will cost me real money.
Don't yet know just how much, but it can be expected to put a limit on the
number I can bring in.  Last night I got a file containing the complete list
of those available.  I haven't looked at it yet, but the file size is over
800KB and I understand it lists about 1200 newsgroups.  It should be interesting

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* Origin: Silver Bullet - Silver Spring, Maryland - 301-622-2247 (Opus 1:109/123

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Date:     01-08-90
To:       BRUCE WRIGHT
Subject:  PROBLEM WITH HARD DRIVE
From:     GEOFF REED

GT>From: rti!bcw@mcnc.org  (Bruce Wright)
GT>Organization: Research Triangle Institute, RTP, NC
GT>
GT>In article <35667@cornell.UUCP>, martin@gvax.cs.cornell.edu (Bill Martin) wri
GT>> The hard drive made a long series of "head seek" sounds before
GT>> the terminal displayed a could-not-load-operating-system sort of message.
GT>> The Winchester diagostics said that either the controller card
GT>> or the drive itself was bad (failing in subtest 2 on the head seek

There is a file available here on Glacier Peak Rainbow (343/3) @ (206)
644-8431 and on Naugy Net (141/491) @ (203) 729-7569 that details the
connections necessacary to make a cable out of ribbon-cable, it's about
$12 in parts at the most, and I think you could have it made for you for under
$20  the instructions are good enough that anyone that can count can make
a replacement cable.


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* Origin: StarShip_Inconnu, Cruisin' the Stars  (1:343/3.1)

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Date:     01-08-90
To:       GEORGE THEALL
Subject:  UUCP/INTERNET
From:     GEOFF REED

GT>GR>George, when I talked with you on the phone, you said that there
GT>GR>were versions of UUCP out there that'd work on the rainbow, But I
GT>forgot who
GT>GR>you said to ask, I'm looking for one 'cause I want to read
GT>comp.os.minix and
GT>GR>a few other conferences, plus be able to get info.dec.micro files
GT>via UUCP
GT>
GT>   Michael Branton (mgb@stetson.BITNET) reportedly is using UUSLAVE to
GT>read news from his Rainbow. I don't think he was able to use the regular
GT>UUPC stuff because of it does some pretty low-level stuff and assumes
GT>PC-compatibility. Maybe  he'll see this message and respond.
GT>by
GT>sending email from FidoNet to Internet? I don't see a gateway for net
GT>343 (which you're using) so stuff would have to go thru David Dodell's
GT>system. Until someone sets up a gateway for your net, then, it would be
GT>best to choose carefully what programs you request.

Well, I was hopint that if i can get a uupc site going, eventually I could
gateway between Internet and Fidonet for net 343, seeing as how my 'bow sits
idle most of the time anyway.  I'll see if I can get Internet or bitnet write
access at the local system that allows reading of the message areas.


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* Origin: StarShip_Inconnu, Cruisin' the Stars  (1:343/3.1)

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Date:     01-10-90 (00:07)
To:       GEORGE THEALL
Subject:  RE: C COMPILERS FOR 100A
From:     GEORGE TURNER

I know that Quick C 1.0 works on the 'bow in command line mode.
I think there's a patch that allows Turbo C 1.5 to run but I don't know the
name.

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