Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!eecg.toronto.edu!satwant
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: satwant@eecg.toronto.edu (Satwant Singh)
Subject: Re: SUN <-> PC data transfers
Message-ID: <1991Apr15.185526.15608@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Keywords: SPARCstation '386 1.44Meg
Organization: EECG, University of Toronto
References: <1991Apr15.131638.12661@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 15 Apr 91 22:55:26 GMT
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In article <1991Apr15.131638.12661@cbnewsc.att.com> dmaster@cbnewsc.att.com (D. R. Wojciechowski) writes:
>I have a '386 Clone at home with a 1.44Meg floppy drive and a
>SUN SPARCstation IPC at work with a 1.44Meg floppy also.  Of
>course I would like to transfer data between the two machines

>dmaster@ihlpm.att.com

Sparc systems allows a file system called /pcfs (pc file system). Do the 
following sequence of commands.

Put a DOS formatted 1.44M floppy, you want to read, in the Drive.

% mount /pcfs		(*see comments below)
% cd /pcfs
% ls

There you go! you have a PC-compatible filesystem. (type % man pcfs    :-))

* You should have filesystem pcfs present in /etc/fstab file. If not then 
ask your system administrator to mount it for you.

Mount requires root privelidge. But once mounted you can leave it there, use
'eject -f' to eject the floppy. PCFS is quite inefficient when compared to 
other access methods.

satwant