Path: utzoo!mnetor!uunet!husc6!uwvax!astroatc!nicmad!lalonde
From: lalonde@nicmad.UUCP (John Lalonde)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aux
Subject: Re: Am I missing something obvious - how do you copy in/out from HFS disks?
Message-ID: <2583@nicmad.UUCP>
Date: 13 Apr 88 23:38:42 GMT
References: <232@voysys.UUCP> <1711@desint.UUCP> <8075@apple.Apple.Com>
Reply-To: lalonde@nicmad.UUCP (John Lalonde)
Organization: Nicolet Instrument Corp.  Madison, WI
Lines: 26
Keywords: Macintosh A/UX HFS

In article <8075@apple.Apple.Com> phil@apple.UUCP (Phil Ronzone) writes:
>In article <1711@desint.UUCP> geoff@desint.UUCP (Geoff Kuenning) writes:
>>	A/UX is a schmuck, second-rate, half-baked product.
>
>Sticks and stones ... well, gee folks, what Geoff is complaining about is
>the lack of an easy to use HFS/UNIX filesystem transfer program. It is
>unfortunate that this leads Geoff to conclude that A/UX is a schmuck product.
>I guess that since Ultrix does not have a VMS/UNIX filesystem product it too
>is a schmuck? :-)
>Anyway, mfs and the kermit we supply we think are adequate.

You should check out a Sun 386i (Road Runner). It handles UNIX/DOS filesystem 
transfer operations transparently. One does *not* have to use a UNIX/DOS 
filesystem transfer program at all on a Road Runner. If you believe mfs and
kermit are adequate then you should expect other A/UX unhappy campers. I have
test drove a Road Runner and their UNIX/DOS filesystem transparency works. I
am not regurgitating marketing hype read in some tabloid. UNIX and DOS Windows
with the same coherent view of the filesystem. Nice and easy...

When is A/UX going to catch up ?

-- 
John LaLonde
Systems Engineering Group
Nicolet Instrument Corporation
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