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Article #190

Re: CTOS <-> DOS disk con

#190
From: Dick Zeitlin
Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1992 14:54
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  > .> Actually, given that mtool package as a starting point, it probably is
  > .> trivial.  But, since the utilities to read/write Dos floppies are part
  > .> of Ctos Standard Software, why bother??
  > .>
  > .> C'mon, Clarence...  You've been dealing with that **IX stuff too long!
  > .> You should get into CTOS!  <~>

CD> .But...
  > .I assumed that the original poster didn't have MREAD/MWRITE, or we wouldn'
  > .have this thread here.

That's like assuming that everyone Rs The FM!!  I never assume that.
Experience has proven otherwise!  <~>

  > .I am promoting the "CTOS open".  There should be PD software in existence
  > .for a system with over a million users.  There certainly is for the
  > .Convergent/AT&T UNIX PC, with its measely 75,000 users.

But those 75,000 users are, for the most part, educated end users, while
most of the million CTOS users are dealing with a "black box" on the
job.

I did a few utilities that were supposed to be PD and released to the
world.  They disappeared into the CT/Unisys "black hole", so...  These
days I'd rather make money.  <~>  If I thought there was any real chance
of getting a return on shareware, I'd do some, but we both know how much
software was "appropriated" by customers without payment.  It soured me
on the prospects for doing shareware.

  > .                                             An hour of your time is
  > .probably more than they paid for the machine ;-).

Nah...  I'm not THAT expensive.  Two hours, maybe...  <~>

CD> .                Glad to see you back.
  > .You aren't actually using a **IX machine to post this, are you ?????

You jest, of course...  As you know, that **IX stuff doesn't turn me
on.  I still have a 7300 and Mini+ around, and even use them sometimes,
but rarely.  Actually, I'm using an NPC (remember that??) through a
local BBS.

        Best,
         D/

 * OLX 2.2 * Bring back A-N airways!!    Dick.Zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com
                                                                                                           
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From: dick.zeitlin%acc1bbs@ssr.com (Dick Zeitlin) 
Newsgroups: comp.sys.unisys
Subject: Re: CTOS <-> DOS disk con
Message-ID: <153.166.uupcb@ssr.com>
Date: 16 Nov 92 14:54:00 GMT
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Organization: Advanced Computer Concepts BBS, New Rochelle, NY 914-654-1981
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