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From: randy@chinet.UUCP (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: cpio for DOS and 3b2 - followup
Message-ID: <1755@chinet.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 21-Oct-87 17:43:12 EDT
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Posted: Wed Oct 21 17:43:12 1987
Date-Received: Sat, 24-Oct-87 08:29:05 EDT
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Reply-To: randy@chinet.UUCP (Randy Suess)
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In article <334@houxj.UUCP> wapd@houxj.UUCP (Bill Dietrich) writes:
>
>3B2 expects floppy disks, hard disks and cartridge tapes to contain
>certain OS-dependent or driver-dependent stuff that would make direct
>transfer of them to/from other systems impossible.  
>					Bill Dietrich
>					houxj!wapd

	I have routinely used cpio on my 3b2/300 with XM unit to
	transfer files between Altos 586/986 cartridge tapes and
	floppies, and Microport UNIX floppies using the undocumented
	96tpi 9 sec format on Microport.


-- 
that's the biz, sweetheart.....
Randy Suess
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