Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: Notesfiles $Revision: 1.6.2.17 $; site uiucdcs.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxj!houxm!ihnp4!inuxc!pur-ee!uiucdcs!hohensee From: hohensee@uiucdcs.UUCP Newsgroups: net.micro Subject: Re: IBM => DEC Rainbow??? Message-ID: <10400175@uiucdcs.UUCP> Date: Sat, 8-Dec-84 23:16:00 EST Article-I.D.: uiucdcs.10400175 Posted: Sat Dec 8 23:16:00 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 11-Dec-84 03:45:56 EST References: <1971@vax4.UUCP> Lines: 18 Nf-ID: #R:vax4:-197100:uiucdcs:10400175:000:580 Nf-From: uiucdcs!hohensee Dec 8 22:16:00 1984 I think you might try first formatting your IBM disk on the IBM using the "1" (single-sided) and "8" (8 as opposed to the 9 by default sectoring) options ... format a:/1/8 Copy the software to the disk and then try running it on the Rainbow under MS-DOS. I've had considerable success doing this with non-hardware specific software, such as a C compiler and a well known Pascal compiler. Good Luck! Bill Hohensee {pur-ee,ihnp4}!uiucdcs!hohensee -- or -- hohensee%uiucdcs@csnet-relay PS Going the other way (Rainbow ==> IBM-PC) does not appear to be as easy.