Xref: utzoo comp.unix.xenix.sco:2724 comp.os.minix:16871 Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!wuarchive!uunet!mcsun!unido!uni-koeln!aix370.rrz.uni-koeln.de!ro From: ro@thp.uni-koeln.de (Rainer Orth) Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix.sco,comp.os.minix Subject: Re: Better DOS programs, anyone? (so I can scrap doscp) Message-ID: Date: 5 Jun 91 20:28:29 GMT References: <699@genco.bungi.com> Sender: news@rrz.uni-koeln.de (Usenet News System) Followup-To: comp.unix.xenix.sco Organization: Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne, F. R. Germany Lines: 26 In-Reply-To: dls@genco.bungi.com's message of 4 Jun 91 01:17:45 GMT In article <699@genco.bungi.com> dls@genco.bungi.com (Dave L. Smith) writes: > I can't take it any more. On SCO Xenix 2.3.3, my doscp takes SO > long to copy files! Sometimes it runs out of memory! Is there an > alternative method? (No, I don't have VP/ix - will anyone sell me > a copy for cheap?) I have used the DOS utilities under Minix, and > in many cases Minix will read and write DOS files FASTER than DOS. > I would hope that there would that Xenix would be able to do so somehow. > Perhaps someone has ported the Minix utilities to Xenix? If not, > I may - before I go insane waiting for doscp to finish. Try mtools version 2.0.4 from cerl.cecer.army.mil [129.229.1.101] ~ftp/pub/mtools/mtools_sh.[1-4].Z I use it both on a SparcStation 1+ or 2 running SunOS 4.1 and on my Atari/ST at home running Minix 1.6.15. On the sparc its nearly twice as fast as the new dos filesystem introduced in SunOS 4.1.1, on the atari more than twice as fast as the tos command suite (which is equivalent to the dos command on Minix/PC.) Hope this helps. Rainer -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Rainer Orth, Institute of Theoretical Physics, University of Cologne Internet: ro@thp.Uni-Koeln.DE