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From: marc@sequoia.cray.com (Marc Bouron)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st,comp.sys.atari.st.tech
Subject: Re: ST Disks & Sparcstation Drives
Message-ID: <035532.21226@timbuk.cray.com>
Date: 21 Mar 91 10:02:34 GMT
References: <1991Mar20.193859.11943@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
Reply-To: marc@sequoia.cray.com (Marc Bouron)
Organization: Cray Research, Inc.
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In article <1991Mar20.193859.11943@m.cs.uiuc.edu>, totty@flute.cs.uiuc.edu (Brian Totty) writes:
|> 
|> 	A few months ago, some people were talking about reading Atari
|> 	ST disks from a Sparcstation.  Does anyone know how to go about
|> 	this?

If you have the mtools suite on the Sparc, it's simply a matter of putting the
DS ST disk in the slot, and using mdir (directory listing) and mcopy to trans-
fer the data.  To transfer text files, use a -t flag on mcopy to translate the
Atari CRLFs.  Binary (.PRG, .RSC, etc...) don't need this flag.

Examples: copy from disk to Sparc: mcopy a:/tetris.prg tetris.prg
                                   mcopy -t a:/tetris.doc tetris.doc
          copy from Sparc to disk: mcopy tetris.prg a:/tetris.prg
                                   mcopy -t tetris.doc a:/tetris.doc

I use this often and have no problems whatsoever.  I format my disks on the ST,
and it sure beats the hell out of playing with kermit on an attached PS/2!


[M][a][r][c]


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