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From: pmd@cbnews.att.com (Paul Dubuc)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Possible to read UNIX floppy with DOS?
Keywords: Unix, CPIO, Floppy, DOS
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.180507.19797@cbnews.att.com>
Date: 14 Mar 91 18:05:07 GMT
References: <0055@starsend.UUCP>
Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
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In article <0055@starsend.UUCP> floyd@starsend.UUCP (Floyd Miller) writes:
}I have a set of floppies comprising a CPIO archive created by some
}version of PC-Unix (ISC or SCO).  Now I want to read it with DOS.
}
}I'm not so much concerned with extracting the files.  I mainly want
}to read the byte stream off the floppy to transfer it to a Sun work-
}station.  [no floppy device on my Sun, no Unix on my PC].
}
}Is there, perhaps, a DOS utility available to read Unix floppies?
}Or a way to access the floppy on an AT machine so as to bypass
}whatever is looking for the DOS format?

The MKS Toolkit has a cpio utility for DOS.  I have been able to unpack
cpio archive files with it.  (Files were made under UNIX System V and
downloaded to my PC with a communications program).  It renames files that
are longer than 11 characters.  I haven't tried it directly from floppy,
but I see no reason that it shouldn't work.
-- 
Paul Dubuc    |   "For religion all men are equal, as all pennies
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	      |   is that they bear the image of the king."
	      |   			G. K. Chesterton