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From: mussar@bcars53.uucp (G. Mussar)
Subject: Re: SUN <-> PC data transfers
Message-ID: <1991Apr17.035233.26160@bigsur.uucp>
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Reply-To: mussar@bnr.ca (G. Mussar)
Organization: Bell-Northern Research, Ottawa, Canada
References: <1991Apr15.131638.12661@cbnewsc.att.com>
Date: Wed, 17 Apr 91 03:52:33 GMT


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
>at times, and using floppies would be much faster than my 1200
>baud modem.  So the question:  Does anyone know of software for
>either end that will allow me to write disks on one machine and
>read them on the other?  Please send me or post any ideas (free,
>share, or commercial) that you may have.
>

As a matter of fact, Sun provides the software to run an MS-DOS files system
on the Sparc 1.44M floppy. All you gotta do is make sure you have built 
the kernel with the PCFS stuff. You need to be root to mount a PCFS (but
I wrote a secure SID program to allow non-root users on my system to do so).

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