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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
Subject: Re: SUN <-> PC data transfers
Keywords: SPARCstation '386 1.44Meg
Message-ID: <1991Apr18.201250.23881@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 18 Apr 91 20:12:50 GMT
References: <1991Apr15.131638.12661@cbnewsc.att.com> <1991Apr16.150941.26206@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu>
Reply-To: poffen@SunOS (Russ Poffenberger)
Organization: Schlumberger Technologies, ATE division, San Jose, Ca.
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In article <1991Apr16.150941.26206@jarvis.csri.toronto.edu> satwant@eecg.toronto.edu (Satwant Singh) writes:
>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.
>

That is true for SunOS 4.1 and up, but the drawback is that you have to be root
(dangerous for the average user to have root privilege), or make mount setuid
root (equally as dangerous). I prefer mtools. It gives you this capability
without needing root access. Note that the older version in the archives on
wuarchive may need a set of patches to make low density work right. There is a
new version (2.0.3) available from cerl.cecer.army.mil. It even supports DOS
partitions on a hard disk!.

I would get it but SRI has our sites reverse domain name server misconfigured
and is being difficult about correcting it. Until then, I cannot access those
sites that demand mapping out IP address to a valid hostname. This includes
uunet.uu.net, and cerl above.

Perhaps some kind soul would make it more available to me, or upload it to
simtel (I could then get it off wuarchive, a mirror site) or cica.

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