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From: malay@sae.com (Bob Malay)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.atari.st
Subject: Re: Reading TOS/DOS formatted disk on a SparcStation
Keywords: Sun, SparcStation. DOS/TOS format
Message-ID: <1991Jun10.192531.1688@sae.com>
Date: 10 Jun 91 19:25:31 GMT
References: <1991Jun04.154053.11570@lut.ac.uk> <1372@zinn.MV.COM>
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In article <1372@zinn.MV.COM>, kgg@zinn.MV.COM (Kenn Goutal) writes:
|> In article <1991Jun04.154053.11570@lut.ac.uk> M.A.Rahin@lut.ac.uk
|> (Mohammad A. Rahin) writes that he needs to know how to format,
|> read, and write TOS floppies on a Sparcstation.
|> 
|> I too would benefit from this information.
|> -- Kenn Goutal
|> 

I tried using Mtools but never got the Mtools' mcopy to work. Our system
admin guy set up pcfs (do a man pcfs). I now use fdformat to format the
floppy on the sparc and then mount /pcfs . After the floppy file system is
mounted you can do any unix-thing you want - ls, cp, df, rm, mkdir, whatever
and the Atari reads these disks without a hitch.

Only glitch is you must be root to do a mount  - at least here you do.

Bob Malay

PS I got a copy of unix-version of lharc. Compiled it on the sparc. I now
un-lharc at blinding speeds and copy the un-lharc'ed files to the sparc
floppy disk!