PC-based RX50 Utilities

    This directory contains utilities pertaining to RX50-related issues
supportable on MS-DOS PC's.  Most of the files are only usable on
PC-compatibles with a 5.25" HD floppy diskette drive of some quality
(preferably a TEAC FD-55GFR or GFV series).  The utilities are provided so
that any and all RX50 system users with access to PC's can maintain RX50
media on those machines.  The intended RX50 structure may contain data
useful only to particular systems that support RX50 such as DECmate II,
III, III+, PDP-8/e with CESI FLP8, Micro-11, Micro-Vax, Rainbow, PRO, etc. 

    Each type of intended system will likely share in at least a portion
of the provided utilities.  For example, many of the listed utilities are
able to participate (at least partially) in the formatting process of a
virgin disk to RX50 standards.  Some will impart a file structure useful
only to a particular system; some may do file conversion to/from MS-DOS,
and some are able to handle the DEC-standard MS-DOS variant found on at
least the Rainbow and the DECmate II w/XPU board, etc. 

    Each utility is purported to be either PD or shareware as indicated in
related documentation files contained within the particular archive files. 
The overall archive maintainers have no responsibility for either their
usage or any relevant fees the authors could demand of users of these
utilities; these files are merely provided as a service to the user
community.  However, all of them have been used for some purpose that
furthers RX50 utilization on a DEC system, and appear to work, some within
certain known limitations that are stated in the documentation provided in
the archive files.  Generally these limitations are documented by users,
not the authors/owners of the programs themselves.  These documents should
be given greater credence than even the provided official documentation
because our purpose in supporting RX50, and the author's purposes could be
in contradiction, etc. 

     Each file is in pkzip format, a common archive format easily dealt 
with on PC's.

cjl

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