🚀 go-pugleaf

Rainbow EchoMail Digest                         Jun 12, 1990

In this issue:
  BACKUP SOFTWARE FOR RB
  RE: WP FOR DEC RAINBOW
  RE: RAINBOW KEYBOARD CABL
  BACKUP SOFTWARE


  Articles posted to either INFO-DEC-MICRO or comp.sys.dec.micro are
currently gatewayed to the Rainbow Echo on FidoNet. You do not need
to take special action to respond to articles in these digests.

  Please send reports of problems or suggestions for improvement of
this digest to GTHEALL@PENNDRLS.UPENN.EDU (Internet).
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Date:     06-07-90
To:       ANYONE
Subject:  BACKUP SOFTWARE FOR RB
From:     HAROLD BAUER

Does anyone know of any backup software for the rainbow (including
IBM backup under code blue) ?

- --- ConfMail V3.31
* Origin: The Pot of Gold - (703-359-6549) (1:109/103)
------------------------------
Date:     06-10-90
To:       GUS MOORE
Subject:  RE: WP FOR DEC RAINBOW
From:     DONALD PHILLIPSON

VDO and VDE are best WordStar public-domain clones for CP/M and MS/DOS (I
forget which is which).   If your client wishes to stay with CP/M he should
know about ASCII word processors, notably Perfect Writer.
The only reason for going to WordPerfect is to make your output files usable
by someone else.   If working only for own use and printing, it's not worth
learning WordPerfect's huge command structure.

- --- Maximus-CBCS v1.00
* Origin: R&D BBS (1:163/226)
------------------------------
Date:     06-11-90
To:       ANDREW TAYLOR
Subject:  RE: RAINBOW KEYBOARD CABL
From:     FRANK MALLORY

Mark Bornstein used to sell the long keyboard cables.

In case you can't get one from Mark of some other commercial source, give
a shout and I will sell you one that I bought from Mark by mistake
(thinking it was the monitor cable).


- --- Opus-CBCS 1.12
* Origin: Silver Bullet - Silver Spring, Md. - 301-622-2247 (1:109/417.0)
------------------------------
Date:     06-11-90
To:       HAROLD BAUER
Subject:  BACKUP SOFTWARE
From:     PAUL OLSON

Harold,
Both CP/M and DOS come with a backup utility.  It is simply called BACKUP.
It has never failed me, with one exception.  When performing CP/M backups,
it is best to start with freshly initialized disks because the CP/M BACKUP
sometimes doesn't delete the old disk contents properly.  On the DOS side,
you can't backup a hard drive partition that has a bunch of small files
on it.  DOS BACKUP keeps a table of files to be backed up, instead of a
linked list structure.  As a result, you can run into situations where the
number of files to be backed up is larger than the number the table can
contain.  As a workaround, simply backup the partition, specifying the root
directories.  Other than that, I can't suggest any third-party backup utilities
As Always,
Paul

- --- ConfMail V3.31
* Origin: The Pot of Gold - (703-359-6549) (1:109/103)
------------------------------