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- Date: Thu 13 Sep 84 16:32:44-EDT
- From: Frank da Cruz <SY.FDC@CU20B.ARPA>
- Subject: Rainbow MS-DOS Kermit Bootstrapping
- To: Info-Kermit@CU20B
-
- Users of DEC Rainbow 100s have complained that there's no bootstrapping
- procedure they can use for getting the new MS-DOS Kermit onto the Rainbow
- over the communication line. The problem was that Basic was not available
- for MS-DOS on the Rainbow (or else it was so new that no one had it yet),
- so the Microsoft Basic program we provided for decoding the .BOO (4-for-3
- encoded) binary file could not be used on the Rainbow.
-
- Now, thanks to Bernie Eiben at DEC, we have a version of the Basic program
- that will run on the CP/M-86 side of the Rainbow. It's a reworking of
- MSBPCT.BAS, which assumes that you already have the .BOO file on your
- CP/M disk. It builds an .EXE file, which you can then move to the MS-DOS
- side of your Rainbow by booting MS-DOS and then using RDCPM to get the
- file from the CP/M-format disk. How you get the .BOO file onto the CP/M
- disk in the first place is another question. Either you use some file
- capture utility -- commercial or otherwise -- or else you go through the
- DDT bootstrap procedure given for CP/M-80 Kermit (since the Rainbow is
- also a CP/M-80 system).
-
- Bernie's program is in MSBRB1.BAS.
-