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From: "kosma@ALAN.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM"@alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com
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Subject: Re: wishful? I want to write an amiga disk from a sparcstation...
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Date: 23 Nov 89 01:03:04 GMT
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From: Montgomery Kosma <kosma@ALAN.LAAC-AI.Dialnet.Symbolics.COM>
Subject: Re: wishful? I want to write an amiga disk from a sparcstation...
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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

well, from what our Sun rep says, at least, the DOS-windows package on
the SPARCstation will allow us to read and write standard MS-DOG disks
on the internal sparcstation drive.  I'm right now looking at the Sun
DOS windows product sheet, which says "You'll be able to load DOS
programs, and read and write DOS or UNIX files through standard floppy
disk drives."  

Unless I and the Sun people I've talked to are mistaken about this,
it should then be fairly easy to use CrossDOS to read stuff to the
amiga.  Anyway, this thread is getting a bit off of the relevant subject
matter of comp.sys.amiga...

monty
kosma@alan.kahuna.decnet.lockheed.com