Date: Thu 13 Sep 84 16:32:44-EDT From: Frank da Cruz 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.