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From: chris@lxn.chi.il.us (Christopher D. Orr)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: NCR Tower - PC File exchange
Keywords: tower pc
Message-ID: <1990Feb16.154651.4085@lxn.chi.il.us>
Date: 16 Feb 90 15:46:51 GMT
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dar@nucleus.mi.org (Dario Alcocer) writes:

>Does anyone know how to transfer files between an NCR Tower machine
>running Unix and IBM PC-DOS file?  I noticed that the Tower has
>a 5-1/4" floppy drive, but the only way I can write to it is via
>cpio redirected to /dev/fd0.  After I do this, though, I can't read the disk
>on MS-DOS.

>Any suggestions?

There are two good possible solutions:

1)  Get the PAX utility recently posted to the net (sources.misc I
think).  It will accomplish exactly what you are trying to do (by
using floppies).

2)  Connect your PC to the Tower and use a transfer protocol to
download the files.  I use ZMODEM on both ends and it really flies.
This, to me, is much easier than using the diskette method.

			--Chris

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