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From: Harvey_Taylor@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: Re: SUN to Amiga disk conversions
Message-ID: <5015@mindlink.UUCP>
Date: 6 Mar 91 03:16:34 GMT
Organization: MIND LINK! - British Columbia, Canada
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In <111306.16298@timbuk.cray.com>, stuart@sequoia.cray.com
                                        (Stuart Mitchell) writes:

  [and basically somebody else about every month]

  [no attribute given]
|> At the moment I follow the following conversion path :
|>
|> Sun -> ethernet -> appletalk -> Mac -> MS-DOS disk -> Amiga
|
|There is a way to reduce this chain by using the "mtools" package which
|allows SPARCstation users to read/write MS-DOS format disks. It's
|available by anon. ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu in directory
|mirrors/unix-c/utils, filename: mtools.tar-z. I believe that SunOS 4.1.1
|actually supports MS-DOS floppies directly anyway (although I can't
|confirm that for definite as we don't have any SPARC's running 4.1.1
|*and* having a floppy drive.
|

    Would somebody more knowledgeable comment on the relative difficulty
 of writing a SUNOSFileSystem for the Amiga.

    We already have MSDosFileSystems. How much problem would it be to port
 ufs [BSD FS, I believe] to AmigaDOS?
    -het

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