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From: toivo@uniwa.uwa.oz (Toivo Pedaste)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: wishful? I want to write an amiga disk on a SPARCstation
Message-ID: <1989Nov23.083159.28420@uniwa.uwa.oz>
Date: 23 Nov 89 08:31:59 GMT
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myb100@csc.anu.oz writes:


>I'd like to know about this too - kermiting takes a _long_ time and is
>not CPU friendly. Also, how do you write the 720k disks in the first place ?
>Using a CrossDos type of program on both machines ?

I read them using the crossdos demo. The ones I've used I've formated on
the amiga using PCpatch from a fish disk (this is a program that patches
the CBM utilities for writing 5 1/4 inch IBM floppies to use the normal
amiga floppy drive).

Reading and writing on the SPARCstation was done using something called 
mdtools which I think are from comp.sources.unix. They allow a unix system
to read and write IBM flopies (if they have a drive of course).
-- 
	Toivo Pedaste				ACSNET: toivo@uniwa.uwa.oz