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From: finegan@uccba.UUCP (Mike Finegan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: cpio for DOS and 3b2 - followup
Message-ID: <1264@uccba.UUCP>
Date: Sat, 24-Oct-87 13:50:30 EST
Article-I.D.: uccba.1264
Posted: Sat Oct 24 13:50:30 1987
Date-Received: Mon, 26-Oct-87 02:35:24 EST
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Organization: Univ of Cincinnati, College of Business Admin.
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Summary: re: That's a start ...

In article <1755@chinet.UUCP>, randy@chinet.UUCP (Randy Suess) writes:
> 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.

	Thanks Bill for the info. that the 3B2 has system specific stuff. I 
am a little enheartened to see that Microport Unix and the Altos can com-
municate. I have neither - just DEC, SUN, HP, and PC machines. (There is an 
hpio driver on the 3B2 ...) Since I got a little response from AT&T:
	Is there any documentation on the system specific goodies that thwart
most attempts at unix-unix data transfer? I have access to some source for tar,
etc., but not for any 3B2 device drivers. Did Microport & Altos make some deal
with AT&T, and is that the only reason they are compatible? I realize someone 
sells a product which does 3B2-DOS flopy transfer. Any ideas how they figured
it out?
				Thanks,
					Mike Finegan
				...!{hal,pyramid,mit-eddie,...}!uccba!finegan