4.0398 Responses: ALLC Email Address; CP/M2DOS (3/48)

Elaine Brennan & Allen Renear (EDITORS@BROWNVM.BITNET)
Tue, 21 Aug 90 17:45:20 EDT

Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 4, No. 0398. Tuesday, 21 Aug 1990.


(1) Date: Mon, 20 Aug 90 19:13:39 EDT (15 lines)
From: John Unsworth <JMUEG@NCSUVM>
Subject: Re: 4.0392 R: ALLC mail ...

(2) Date: 20 Aug 90 21:52:32 EST (21 lines)
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: 4.0392 R: ... CPM2DOS ...(4/66)

(3) Date: Tue, 21 Aug 90 09:41 CDT (12 lines)
From: Bill Kupersmith <BLAWRKWY@UIAMVS>
Subject: CP/M

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Date: Mon, 20 Aug 90 19:13:39 EDT
From: John Unsworth <JMUEG@NCSUVM>
Subject: Re: 4.0392 R: ALLC mail; Qs: Hebrew; Camb Computing; CPM2DOS

Regarding the e-mail address for ALLC, submitted by Mike Neuman, the
format of the node address must be reversed if you are sending the mail
from the U.S.: in other words, mail should go to GDIXON@Manchester.ac.uk
(or possibly to G.DIXON@Manchester.ac.uk--Mike gives both userids in his
note). For some unknown reason, the Brits reverse the order of the
domains in the node portion of e-mail addresses, giving the highest
domain first instead of last. Mail sent from the U.S. to England using
British addressing conventions will be automatically returned as
undeliverable.

John Unsworth
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Date: 20 Aug 90 21:52:32 EST
From: James O'Donnell <JODONNEL@PENNSAS.UPENN.EDU>
Subject: 4.0392 R: ALLC mail; Qs: Hebrew; Camb Computing; CPM2DOS (4/66)

From: Jim O'Donnell

Kaypro to IBM: The owner of the machine may even have something already,
buried on the CPM utility disks. Look for a program with a name like
UNIFORM or other suspicious `formatting' program. From about 1984/5,
Kaypros shipped with such a program. Before that, you have to find a
copy of the commercially available (about $50) program that is actually
called UNIFORM, specifying exactly which Kaypro you had (2, 4, 10: there
were different versions of Uniform for each). The program works very
handily, formatting IBM-readable disks in your Kaypro's B-drive, then
copying files to them. I spent about twelve hours in the summer of 1986
copying 44 Kaypro floppies that way and every scrap of data made it
through loud and clear.

How to find UNIFORM? Alas, no idea of the maker or whereabouts, but
software catalogues, etc. ought to be able to turn it up. Old Kaypro
users' groups?
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Date: Tue, 21 Aug 90 09:41 CDT
From: Bill Kupersmith <BLAWRKWY@UIAMVS>
Subject: CP/M

In answer to Charles Ess's query about CP/M files: there was a lot of
software to convert CP/M to IBM in the middle '80s. I have a package
called UNIFORM which was sold by a firm called Micro Solutions in De
Kalb, Illinois. It works by creating an imaginary C: drive on the IBM
which mimics a variety of CP/M machines.

--Bill Kupersmith
--University of Iowa