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From: tmurphy@wpi.wpi.edu (Tom [Chris] Murphy)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: SPARC -> MS-DOS
Message-ID: <13358@wpi.wpi.edu>
Date: 8 Jun 90 21:21:56 GMT
References: <1990Jun6.183611.1861@cs.rochester.edu>
Reply-To: tmurphy@wpi.wpi.edu (Tom [Chris] Murphy)
Organization: Worcester Polytechnic Institute CAD Lab
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In article <1990Jun6.183611.1861@cs.rochester.edu> dubnicki@cs.rochester.edu writes:
>I would like to transfer files from SPARC sation 1
>to MS-DOS machine. Since both computers have 3.5 diskette drives
>the obvious way is to use them for this transfer.
>
>Does anybody know about MS-DOS program which can read
>diskettes written by SPARC station (or UNIX program
>which can write files on such diskette in MS-DOS format)?
>
 
I have managed to get programs to go both ways.  There is a package called
MTOOLS that allows Unix machines to read and write MSDOS disks (this should
be archived in comp.sources.unix), and PC versions of tar exist that can
be used to access disks written using tar on the SS1.

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