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- From: lilleyc@cs.man.ac.uk (Chris Lilley)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.dec
- Subject: Re: DEC Read/Write of DOS floppy disk
- Message-ID: <7090@m1.cs.man.ac.uk>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 23:09:51 GMT
- References: <1992Dec17.140256.18994@infodev.cam.ac.uk>
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- Organization: Dept Computer Science, University of Manchester, U.K.
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- In article <1992Dec17.140256.18994@infodev.cam.ac.uk> mjl17@mbuc.bio.cam.ac.uk (Michael Lush) writes:
- >
- > A week ago I posted the following question:-
- >
- >> I have a DECstation 5000/25 (running ULTRIX V4.2A (Rev. 47)),
- >>and I want to read and/or write to DOS floppy disks via the internal
- >>disk drive.
- >> How do I do this? I've been told its possible but not how
- >>to do it.
-
- Well sorry, I missed the original post. Anyway, two more options that
- were not mentioned in your summary:
-
- 1) Use SoftPC which is a DOS emulator and (I think) alows use of
- the internal floppy drive as a DOS disk
-
- 2) Not using your internal drive. Depends if that was essential,
- or you just want to read & write DOS disks.... If so, get a cheap PC
- somewhere that has 3.5 and 5.25 drives, add an ethernet card, get some
- software that lets you telnet, ftp, and lp and away you go. The actual
- PC need not be that great, it is just a networked floppy. We have an
- old 286 which is used for exactly that.
-
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- Chris Lilley
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