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From: chasm@killer.DALLAS.TX.US (Charles Marslett)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Are Minix-PC and Minix-ST media compatible ?
Summary: Oops!
Message-ID: <8335@killer.DALLAS.TX.US>
Date: 10 Jun 89 15:42:51 GMT
References: <17162@louie.udel.EDU> <618@lzaz.ATT.COM> <1371@psueea.UUCP>
Organization: The Unix(R) Connection, Dallas, Texas
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In article <1371@psueea.UUCP>, kirkenda@psueea.uucp (Steve Kirkendall) writes:
:: In article <618@lzaz.ATT.COM> hcj@lzaz.ATT.COM (HC Johnson) writes:
:: >In article <17162@louie.udel.EDU>, VBRANDT%DBNUAMA1.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:
:: >>    if this is a somewhat stupid question, please forgive me, but I'll ask
:: >> anyway. Are Minix-PC and Minix-ST media compatible ?
:: 
:: You can store one archive per disk.  Note that the disk will not have a file
:: system on it; it will have a tar archive on it instead.
:: 
:: Another option: format the 3.5" disk under MS-DOS, and then use the tos/dos
:: utilities to put the files on the disk in MS-DOS format, which is more
:: standardized.  This may require more work, since the tos/dos utilities do
:: not handle subdirectories very well.
:: 
:: I have used Minix-ST's tos utility to put files on a 3.5 disk which I then
:: read on a '286 machine running MS-DOS, so the tos and dos utilities must be
:: compatible.

Yes, we seem to have slipped up with our file system:  the Atari version is
definitely not as compatible with the PC version as their native operating
systems are -- mostly because the Atari one was "upgraded", but also because
it does cost a couple of clock cycles to swap bytes (then, it costs a lot of
clock cycles to run compiled code!  [Snide criticism, not fully deserved, but
fun to shove in ;^)]).

:: 	-- Steve Kirkendall
:: 	   ...uunet!tektronix!psu-cs!kirkenda

Charles Marslett
chasm@killer.dallas.tx.us