Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!mintaka!bloom-beacon!eru!hagbard!sunic!news.funet.fi!uta!kielo!av From: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: SUN <-> PC data transfers Message-ID: Date: 19 Apr 91 05:56:35 GMT References: <1991Apr15.131638.12661@cbnewsc.att.com> <1991Apr17.194002.5082@mks.com> Sender: news@uta.fi Reply-To: av@uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) Organization: University of Tampere, Finland Lines: 20 Nntp-Posting-Host: uta.fi In-reply-to: andy@mks.com's message of 17 Apr 91 19:40:02 GMT >>>>> On 17 Apr 91 19:40:02 GMT, andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) said: Andy> You can mount the floppy on your SUN SPARCStation IPC as a pcfs Andy> filesystem. This is a feature of SunOS 4.1.1 so you need this version Andy> of SunOS. There is also a package called MTOOLS for the SUN which Andy> allows it to access MS-DOS diskettes. Check the Andy> comp.sources.{misc,unix} archive sites for it. I tried both and there are two reasons why I prefer mtools: 1) you need to be root to use pcfs but anyone can use mtools 2) mtools is 7 (seven !) times faster than pcfs (tried in copying 440 k file from floppy to harddisk) -- Arto V. Viitanen email: av@kielo.uta.fi University Of Tampere, av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi Finland