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From: lphillips@lpami.wimsey.bc.ca (Larry Phillips)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: wishful? I want to write an amiga disk from a sparcstation...
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Date: 20 Nov 89 00:46:15 GMT
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In <4120@nigel.udel.EDU>, "kosma@ALAN.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM"@alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com writes:
>The easiest way to effect a transfer of files between a sparcstation and
>an amiga is to buy the Sun product DOS-windows which allows among other
>things reading and writing MS-DOS format disks on the SPARC's internal
>3.5 inch drive.  Then, on the amiga end, I plan to use CrossDOS (I think
>that's what it's called) to read the MS-DOS format files onto the amiga.
>Definitely not ideal, and not really cheap (fortunately there's other
>reasons for us to get DOS-windows at work so the $500 or whatever is
>covered) but it seems that this will do (much better than Kermit, at
>least!).

I'd have to check to make sure, but I _think_ the internal floppy drive on the
SPARCStation is incapable of writing 720K diskettes. I believe it will read
them though, so you might be able to transfer files from Amiga to SPARCStation,
but not the other way around.

-larry

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