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From: melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger)
Subject: Re: Sun to Next floppy transfer?
In-Reply-To: kph@blackhole.bae.bellcore.com's message of 3 May 91 16:16:00 GMT
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In article <1991May3.161600.15282@bellcore.bellcore.com> kph@blackhole.bae.bellcore.com (Keith P. Hawkins) writes:


   Hello NeXT Enthusiasts.

   I was wondering if there is a way for me to read in files on my PLI
   floppy drive from a floppy which was written by my Sun SPARCstation IPC.

   I do not know much about device drivers and file formats, etc.  If
   this type of transfer is possible, a simple set of directions would be greatly
   appreciated.

   My only access to the archives, etc. is from my Sun at work. I'd like to
   be able to do some "sneaker net" transfers to my Next at home.


Both the Sun and NeXT read MS DOS formatted disks, so you shouldn't
have any problem if you format your disk as DOS.  To deal with the
filename length limits, you might want to tar (compress for space)
directories.

-Mike