Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!snorkelwacker.mit.edu!ai-lab!churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu!stokes From: stokes@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Perry Stokes) Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos Subject: Re: using dos diskettes on a sun(unix) Message-ID: <16509@life.ai.mit.edu> Date: 15 Jun 91 10:06:46 GMT References: Sender: news@ai.mit.edu Organization: The Free Software Foundation Lines: 22 In article matelgar@nmsu.edu (Marek Telgarsky) writes: > > I would like to be able manipulate files on a DOS diskette >while sitting at a SUN4. There is incompatibility with the file >allocator that unix uses with the one that dos does. Does anyone have >that type of a program, know of a site of where to find one, or has enough >information to program one (in C)? It is possible to read the blocks >on a dos diskette on a sun4, but it is straight reading and no >interpretation by the system. Hence, there is no way to seperate files >or to see whether there are different files. Any help would be >appreciated. Have you looked at mtools? It's a set of programs for reading/writing/creating MS DOS filesystems on the 3.5" disk drive on a sun4. -- Perry Stokes stokes@ai.mit.edu 512-836-2163