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From: jorgi@cs.uow.edu.au (George B Zamroz)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos
Subject: Re: Using floppy diskettes on Sun
Message-ID: <1991Mar14.063212.14623@cs.uow.edu.au>
Date: 14 Mar 91 06:32:12 GMT
References: <1991Mar13.170844.3504@math.ufl.edu>
Organization: Dept of Computer Science, Wollongong University
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wang@math.ufl.edu writes:

>Hello, you all.

>For those of you who use SUN Sparc workstations with floppy drives, I
>have a question to ask for help: Is it possible, and how to transfer
>DOS ASCII files from floppies to a SUN Sparc station? According to
>SUN's booklet, the floppy drives for SUN Sparc stations are MS-DOS
>compatible. Does it mean that we can transfer files from and/or to
>floppies that which can be used on PCs? I don't think files transfered
>with the "bar" command are MS-DOS compatible...

When they say that the floppy driver are MS-DOS compatible, they mean that they
use the same physical format (80 tracks, double-sided, 1.44MB). Unfortunately
the file-systems are totally different, so unless you have a program on the PC
that understands the a UNIX file system, or a program on the SUN that
understands the MS-DOS file system, you are stuck. BTW, the drive on an Apple
Macintosh is also MS-DOS compatible, but you still need the Apple File Exchange
program to transfer files bask and forth between MS-DOS and MAC OS.

P.S. What do you mean by the "bar" command? (Is it some form of archive
format).
-- 
George B. Zamroz, University of Wollongong, Australia
Masters Student (Computer Science)        
Internet: jorgi@cs.uow.edu.au