Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sun-barr!newstop!west!gesundheit.West.Sun.COM!saunders From: saunders@gesundheit.West.Sun.COM (Gene Saunders) Newsgroups: comp.unix.msdos Subject: Re: using dos diskettes on a sun(unix) Summary: SunOS includes support for PC floppies Keywords: pcfs, SunOS, MS-DOS, floppy Message-ID: <1804@west.West.Sun.COM> Date: 16 Jun 91 07:43:45 GMT Expires: 30 Jun 91 07:00:00 GMT References: <16509@life.ai.mit.edu> Sender: news@west.West.Sun.COM Organization: Sun Microsystems, Inc. Lines: 38 In article <16509@life.ai.mit.edu> stokes@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Perry Stokes) writes: >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. I tried emailing directly to stokes@churchy.gnu.ai.mit.edu, but that bouunced, hence the post to the net. SunOS (at least the current SunOS 4.1.1-B revision - I think it started in SunOS 4.1) includes support for PC-formatted floppies. Run a man page on "pcfs" (PC filesystem) and you'll see what you're after. Basically, you mount the floppy disc onto Unix: # mount -t pcfs /dev/fd0 /pcfs and then you can "cp", "mv", etc files from Unix onto that floppy. Unix filenames are mapped into the DOS 8+3 format (longfilename.wk3 becomes longfile.wk3, for example). I use this all the time when moving stuff from PCs onto my SPARCstation1+ at work .. and mtools is no longer needed. -- Gene Saunders | gene.saunders@West.Sun.COM | Save a tree; use AnswerBook. Sun Microsystems | ..!uunet!sun!gsaunders | I'm the one your mother warned you about: views stated herein are my own.