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Re: reading rainbow disks on a '386 PC

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From: Charles Lasner
Date: Tue, 04 Aug 1992 18:41
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In article <BARRY.92Aug4081330@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu> barry@chezmoto.ai.mit.edu (Barry Kort) writes:
>Charles,
>
>You can retreive rt11.zip by via anonymous ftp from
>newton.canterbury.ac.nz, 132.181.40.1, in the pub/local directory.
>
>Barry

Got it.  It looks nice.  It produces what appears to be a nice RT-11-like
environment on a PC for file transfers, etc., but is inferior to Teledisk
for the purpose of making a compacted image of an entire disk as a DOS
file.  Since this is a frill, it can be completely overlooked :-).

And yes, it does Format DD-type media to stock RX50 as advertised.  I will
only take you to task on the minor point: it doesn't require RX50DRVR at all.
There was a little confusion as to whether they were tied together, which is
not the case.

This program is written in Turbo Pascal.  It would seem that someone who
can understand enough TP and the quirky code to call BIOS routines should
incorporate some of RT11.PAS into FDFORMAT (also a TP-based item) since
the format routine works fine while FDFORMAT does not for RX50 as discussed
elsewhere.

Overall a nice program.

cjl
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