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From: gts@megatest.UUCP (Tom Stephenson)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Re: Possible to read UNIX floppy with DOS?
Message-ID: <15721@megatest.UUCP>
Date: 18 Mar 91 03:11:20 GMT
References: <0055@starsend.UUCP>
Organization: Megatest Corporation, San Jose, Ca
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From article <0055@starsend.UUCP>, by floyd@starsend.UUCP (Floyd Miller):
> 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?

We use XENIX running on a 386 PC. I have at times wanted files from XENIX
(on DOS) so the MKS Toolkit dd command works quite well.

The MKS toolkit command "dd" can read from the floppy disk.

What I did was use the dd command (XENIX) to write to the formatted floppy
under XENIX then use the MKS dd command on DOS to read the bit stream.

Hope this helps.
				Tom Stephenson
G. Tom Stephenson; Megatest Corp. (gts@megatest.UUCP) 
880 Fox Ln.;  San Jose, CA 95031 (408) 437-9700 
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