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From: klute@tommy.informatik.uni-dortmund.de (Rainer Klute)
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Subject: Re: M-Tools, where to ftp from?
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Date: 19 Apr 91 10:06:50 GMT
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In article <kTTk12w164w@ersys.uucp>, ersys!mforget@nro.cs.athabascau.ca
(Michel Forget) writes:
|> What is M-Tools, exactly?  I haven't heard of it before, so I'm curious.
|> |> It it a HD Utility, or is it some form of CLI?  Thanks for the 
|> information (I hope).

It is a set of programs that lets you handle floppies formatted for MS-DOS
(or Atari) on your Unix machine.

I have it installed on my Sun IPC and use it to exchange files with my
Atari ST. The big plus is that it works much faster than transfer over the
serial line.

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