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From: steve-t@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM (Steve Taylor)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.hp
Subject: Re: Mounting a BASIC disk under HP-UX.
Message-ID: <7370403@hpfcso.FC.HP.COM>
Date: 28 May 91 23:16:08 GMT
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Organization: Hewlett-Packard, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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/comp.sys.hp/ gill@mars.m2c.org (Robert Gill) /9:32am  May 28, 1991/
| I have an HP 9000/330 that has 2 disks attached to it.  One is running 
| BASIC and the other HP-UX 6.2.  I would like to access some of the data 
| files on the BASIC disk while running HP-UX.  ...
| So, my question is, can it be done?

In general, yes, in several ways.  Which version of BASIC are you running
on the 330?  If it's 5.0 or later, is the BASIC disk using HFS format (same
as HP-UX) or LIF format?

Pre-5.0 BASIC:				5.0 or later BASIC:
Use LIF utilities on HP-UX,		Still can use LIF utilities on HP-UX,
some file types will present		but a better way would be to either:
problems.  Consider upgrade of		access HP-UX disk from BASIC and write
BASIC to later version.			files there (use HPUX filetype) or
					(if BASIC disk is HFS format) mount
					BASIC disk on HP-UX and read files
					(non-HPUX filetypes will present some
					problems).

| We are scheduled to received Rocky Mountain BASIC in the next few days.
| Will this help matters any???

Uhmm, the BASIC you already have would also be RMB.  Question is, which
version.  There's also RMB/UX, which might make things simpler (you could
avoid rebooting the 330, for example), but I think you need a more recent
release of HP-UX for that.

| If need be I can find out the model of disk that are being used. 

Don't think that would matter.

| The purpose of this exercise (for the curious) is to transfer some data 
| files from the HP system to a VMS machine.  The transfer itself will be 
| done using FTP (the VMS machine runs some software that does TCP/IP).

There's also a third-party product that enables HP BASIC to talk TCP/IP.
Called FUSION, comes from Network Research Corp.  But again, you need at
least BASIC 5.0 to use it.
						Regards, Steve taylor

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