[5926] in SIPB bug reports
IBMRT floppy format
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Don Hejna)
Wed Apr 17 02:02:07 1996
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1996 23:01:37 -0700
From: djhejna@netcom.com (Don Hejna)
To: bug-sipb@MIT.EDU
Cc: djhejna@netcom.com
Help me please...
I have old thesis files I now need to get back online. They were
written with the IBM-RTs on the 5.25 inch floppies using tar or some
sort of MSDOS filesystem I believe. In my niave undergraduate state I
thought I would be able to read them in the "real world" but alas I
cant.
I have a PC with the 5.25 floppy drive and a 3.5 inch floppy drive, a
Sun Workstation with a 3.5 inch floppy drive, internet connections
etc. Dos reports the floppy is unformatted.
Any chance you guys have some slick dosware that will suck in a floppy
written by an IBM-RT and blow it out to GNU tar or something like that?
If not, does IBM??
-Don Hejna
