[HECnet] Future problems?

[Johnny Billquist]

On 2016-07-16 03:51, John Wilson wrote:
> From: Johnny Billquist <bqt at softjar.se>
> Date: Sat, 16 Jul 2016 01:09:24 +0200
>
>> Interesting, as XXDP V2 have a format that appears to be pretty much the
>> same as RT-11. (Including FLX being able to read it, more or less.)
>
> Hmm.  My experience (of reading XXDP V2 disks with my own code) disagrees.
> And the RSX doc says that FLX supports DOS-11 disks/DECtapes (in addition
> to DOS-11 magtapes which are *much* easier), which are very similar to
> XXDP+ format (so maybe FLX has tweaks for the slight differences?).

I think I must have remembered wrong. I just tried, and failed. I think 
I confused it with the XXDP tape I have, which I sortof can read with FLX.
It seems I don't have any tool that can read my XXDP disk under RSX.

	Johnny

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