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From: hb136@leah.albany.edu (Herb Brown)
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Subject: Re: Using AmigaDOS & UNIX
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Date: 7 Mar 91 12:41:39 GMT
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In article <2749@enea.se> tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson) writes:
>In article <1991Mar5.123116.8063@sarah.albany.edu- hb136@leah.albany.edu (Herb Brown) writes:
>-
>-I understand that; however, how can I transfer that "neat" pgm.zoo file
>-which I just downloaded to the UNIX side of the hard drive to the Amiga
>-side of the hard drive? On my 'old fashioned' system I would simply use
>-a modem and z-modem protocol to get it to the Amiga. Does my question
>-make sense? Do I need a second Amiga to accomplish this? Sorry if I'm
>-appearing dense, but I really do not understand how to do this with a
>-3000UX machine. Many thanks for any help.
>- 
>-                                    Herb
>- 
>
>There's always the ugly way of using BRU (Backup & Restore Utility) to
>backup/restore from diskettes. The program exists in compatible versions
>on both Unix and Amiga-DOS.
>
>Tommy Petersson
>tope@enea.se

Unfortunately that will not work because on the UNIX side it restores to
a disk which cannot be read by AmigaDOS and on the Amiga side one cannot
access the unix files.

Perhaps someone at Commodore will be kind enough to explain a solution?

                                   Herb

Herb Brown  Math Dept  The Univ at Albany  Albany  NY  12222 (518) 442-4640