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From: joachim@jrix.radig.de (Joachim Riedel)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.misc
Subject: Data exchange between Coherent 3.1.0 and SysV386
Message-ID: <1990Dec1.103520.9496@jrix.radig.de>
Date: 1 Dec 90 10:35:20 GMT
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Organization: Joachim Riedel, Offenbach, West Germany
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Once I read some articles that Coherent is not able to read or 
write diskettes created by other UNIX-Systems, for example SCO,
Interactive and so on.
I believed that and copied from 386/ix to DOS, from DOS to Coherent.
But now I tried cpio and tar on the raw device and it worked perfectly.
Now I use cpio to exchange data between my 386/ix and Coherent.
When you read with 386/ix Coherent diskettes it's just a little bit 
slower because Coherent formats the diskettes with a default Interleave
of 1 : 6.

Therefore: Never trust any articles before you tried it yourself.

A lot of fun with Coherent

Joachim

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