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From: tmoore@coss.Dayton.NCR.COM (Tom Moore)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: NCR Tower - PC File exchange
Keywords: tower pc
Message-ID: <338@coss.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 90 13:15:36 GMT
References: <5531@nucleus.mi.org>
Organization: NCR  CISS-Network Application Services   Dayton, Ohio  45479
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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.

Check out the program "pcdsk" provided with the TOWER.  It can supposedly 
do what you are asking.  Not that it is not a supported piece of software.

The reason that I say supposedly is that I don't personally use pcdsk
so I cannot speak from experience.  I generally use the TOWER sb and rb
commands to transfer files with YModem batch mode.  (Please, all of you who
have other, possibly better choices for file transfer need not try to
convert me.  YModem works fine for me.)

Good luck.


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