18 Dec
2006
18 Dec
'06
1:54 p.m.
Chuck Guzis wrote:
On 18 Dec 2006 at 13:36, Kevin Handy wrote:
I've used it, but WPS-16 doesn't sound right.
WPS-Plus for the rainbow version, maybe?
The transfer between the systems usually relied on
"DX" transfers. Each one converted it to "DX" format,
sent it through a serial line, and the remote system
converted the "DX" format to it's native format.
Usually it worked well, but sometimes it did odd things.
Every version of Word-??, DecWord-?? seemed to
use
very different file formats, so I'm not surprised that the
RX01 version is different from the RX50 version. But you
had to do a RX transfer to transport them, so they could
do a format conversion at the same time.
I believe that there is also a version of WPS for the Rainbow, called
WPS-16. IIRC, it had a conversion function from WPS-Plus RX-50
diskettes to WPS-16. And, if my memory isn't failing me, it wasn't a
DEC product.