Xref: utzoo comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc:7442 comp.os.msdos.misc:1450 alt.msdos.programmer:2445 Path: utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!wuarchive!m.cs.uiuc.edu!roundup.crhc.uiuc.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!bradley.bradley.edu!buhub!data From: data@buhub.bradley.edu (LCMDR Data) 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: <1991Mar15.015535.21993@bradley.bradley.edu> Date: 15 Mar 91 01:55:35 GMT References: <0055@starsend.UUCP> <1991Mar14.180507.19797@cbnews.att.com> Sender: news@bradley.bradley.edu Organization: Bradley University Lines: 19 Nntp-Posting-Host: buhub.bradley.edu In <1991Mar14.180507.19797@cbnews.att.com> pmd@cbnews.att.com (Paul Dubuc) writes: >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. That's all well and good, but if they use different sector sizes/track configurations then you're screwed unless the program (the MKS toolkit) just happens to know how to read them... -- | I'nt: data@{bucs1,buhub,heartland}.bradley.edu, al632@cleveland.freenet.edu | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | F'net : 1:232/28 1:2250/9 (fname.lname@f.n.z.fidonet.org) | |-----------------------------------------------------------------------------| | "He sees you when you're sleeping, he knows when you're awake, but Captain, | | it makes no sense!" "But Spock, with Santa, ALL things are possible!" | | Kirk and Spock...Hallmark Greeting Cards |