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From: vickde@vicstoy.UUCP (Vick De Giorgio)
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Subject: Re: The MINIX FS (how close to UNIX)??
Keywords: minix fs tar
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Date: 10 Nov 90 07:50:22 GMT
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In article <35482@nigel.ee.udel.edu> 702WFG%SCRVMSYS.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (bill gunshannon) writes:
>How close to the UNIX FS is the MINIX FS??  Is it likely that I could
>mount a floppy with a mountable MINIX FS on it on an AT&T 3B1??  I am
>interested in moving from 1.1 to 1.5.xx but don't relish the thought
>of converting everything to MSDOS and then kermiting it over to my UNIX
>box for updating and then bringing it back the opposite way.  Any chance??

I'm running Minix 1.3 on a Sharp MZ-100 laptop with 2 720K floppies,
and ISC 386/ix on a 386SX. I found that tar archives written to the
3-1/2" floppies are exchangable across the 2 machines. Also, if you
compress before you tar, Minix compress (at least on 1.3) is only good
for 13-bits, so use the -b 13 on your Unix compress. Much faster than
running it through DOS and kermit. =V=

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