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From: ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah)
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Subject: Re: SPARC -> MS-DOS
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Date: 9 Jun 90 21:06:55 GMT
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In article <3041@crash.cts.com> jca@pnet01.cts.com (John C. Archambeau) writes:
>I would like to transfer files from SPARC sation 1
>to MS-DOS machine.

At the RAND Corporation, we have a bunch of programs

	mcopy
	mdel
	mdir
	mmd
	mrd

etc. which support manipulations of DOS-formatted 3.5" floppies
(either LD or HD) on the SPARC disk drive.  They work beautifully
except for the following glitches:

	1. I'm pretty convinced copying from SPARC to DOS is buggy,
	2. You can't format DOS disks (there is no mformat),
	3. There is no mcd, instead you have to establish the
	environmental variable MCWD.

I don't know whether these programs are part of standard sun 
distribution or were written at RAND or were picked off some
public domain sources by administrators at RAND.

Hope this helped..and how does one possibly run a DOS-Windows on
the SPARC?  Does it emulate the 8088, instruction by
instruction?

	
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Ajay Shah, (213)747-9991, ajayshah@usc.edu
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