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Rainbow EchoMail Digest                         Jul  1, 1990

In this issue:
  RE: SUBJECT: IBM PC FLOPP
  SUBJECT: IBM PC FLOPPIES?
  RE: WP FOR DEC RAINBOW
  RE: CACHE PROGRAM


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Date:     06-28-90 (18:59)
To:       GEORGE THEALL
Subject:  RE: SUBJECT: IBM PC FLOPP
From:     ALAN CONROY

  Sorry, but 360K diskettes are double-sided.  The RX50 only reads
single-sided.  So, though you could theoretically read the data on one
side, you can't get to the second side.


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Date:     06-29-90 (06:03)
To:       GEORGE THEALL
Subject:  SUBJECT: IBM PC FLOPPIES?
From:     DON MARQUART


 > From: md33+@andrew.cmu.edu  (Marek J. Druzdzel) Organization: Engineering
 > and Public Policy, Carnegie Mellon, Pittsburgh, PA
 >
 > Is there any software allowing for reading or writing IBM PC 360K floppies
 > on Rainbow? It seems technically possible: Rainbow has a higher capacity
 > drives and also runs MS DOS.

Unfortunately the RB uses single sided 96 TPI drives where as the 360K
format on the IBM-PC compatibles require a double sided 48 TPI drive.
The good news is that you can read/write the single sided IBM format
if "mediachk" is turned on in MS-DOS.  Hope this helps some.

Later...



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Date:     06-29-90 (20:36)
To:       FRANK MALLORY
Subject:  RE: WP FOR DEC RAINBOW
From:     DONALD PHILLIPSON

"Is Sprint a markup language or WYSIWYG?" you ask.   Sorry, unsure
what a markup language is.   Sprint is a full-featured WP,
configurable in many ways -- but WYSIWYG would be so difficult as to
be hardly worth the effort.   Possible, certainly, but you'd have to
get quite fluent in the Sprint macro language first!   That pays only
for other purposes, e.g. speed and security.

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Date:     06-30-90 (11:59)
To:       BILL HLIWA
Subject:  RE: CACHE PROGRAM
From:     CARL HOUSEMAN

re: Since SS is no longer with us, I assume we can share their
software freely.  No?

 This is an interesting question, and I too wonder what others think
and what the legal opinions are.

 I generally operate by:  If you can buy it, do, but if they won't
sell it and you can get it, fine.  This works well for using "internal
use only" software without guilt.  Of course, when SS started selling
DOS 3.10 I put aside my internal use only copy and bought it.  Now
that they don't sell it, what's a Rainbow owner who missed the
deadline to do?

 Of course, if one DID buy the software, then one is bound by the
license agreement even after the company goes out of business, I
suppose, which includes not giving it away.  The possibility of a
legal action from the defunct company seems unlikely, tho...


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