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From: tope@enea.se (Tommy Petersson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.emulations
Subject: Re: Using AmigaDOS & UNIX
Message-ID: <2769@enea.se>
Date: 9 Mar 91 16:50:29 GMT
References: <1991Mar5.123116.8063@sarah.albany.edu- <2749@enea.se> <1991Mar7.124139.24910@sarah.albany.edu>
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In article <1991Mar7.124139.24910@sarah.albany.edu- hb136@leah.albany.edu (Herb Brown) writes:
-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.
-

I can't say I tried it, but my info comes from Commodore Amiga Unix Tech
Notes. Perhaps no-one at Commodore now anything about it...

-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