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Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
From: satwant@eecg.toronto.edu (Satwant Singh)
Subject: Re: SUN <-> PC data transfers
Message-ID: <1991Apr16.150941.26206@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Keywords: SPARCstation '386 1.44Meg
Organization: EECG, University of Toronto
References: <1991Apr15.131638.12661@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: 16 Apr 91 19:09:42 GMT
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In article 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

This is pretty straight forward in SPARCstations. There is provided a 
PC-compatible File System (/pcfs), which reads and writes on floppy in
same format as an IBM PC. Of course, file name conventions and access right
incompatibilities creat some trouble. (% man pcfs    will help)

Do the following sequence of commands.

	1. Put a DOS formatted floppy in the drive.
	2. % mount /pcfs		(you have to be the root)
	3. % cd /pcfs

There you go!  You can eject the floppy by % eject -f

File system needs to be mounted only once.

satwant.