Path: utzoo!attcan!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!hellgate.utah.edu!hellgate!jacobs From: jacobs@cs.utah.edu (Steven R. Jacobs) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: SPARC -> MS-DOS Message-ID: Date: 10 Jun 90 12:23:03 GMT References: <3041@crash.cts.com> <4987@plains.UUCP> <3785@dogie.macc.wisc.edu> <10119@chaph.usc.edu> Organization: University of Utah CS Dept Lines: 30 In-reply-to: ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu's message of 9 Jun 90 21:06:55 GMT In article <10119@chaph.usc.edu> ajayshah@aludra.usc.edu (Ajay Shah) writes: > 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: This is the "mtools" package. It is available through FTP, but I don't know where it is located (I got my copy elsewhere). > 1. I'm pretty convinced copying from SPARC to DOS is buggy, Can you be more specific? I've copied several Mbytes without trouble. > 2. You can't format DOS disks (there is no mformat), You can with "mkdfs", which is part of the package. There are options for 720K and 1.44M formats. -- Steve Jacobs ({bellcore,hplabs,uunet}!utah-cs!jacobs, jacobs@cs.utah.edu)