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From: btrue@emdeng.Dayton.NCR.COM (Barry.True)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.misc
Subject: Re: NCR Tower - PC File exchange
Keywords: tower pc
Message-ID: <227@emdeng.Dayton.NCR.COM>
Date: 16 Feb 90 14:17:14 GMT
References: <5531@nucleus.mi.org>
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Organization: NCR, E&M Dayton
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In article <5531@nucleus.mi.org> 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?
>

The reason you can't read the TOWER flex on DOS after cpio is that it is in
the wrong format. You can simply copy files to a flex on the TOWER by
formatting the flex on the TOWER and mounting /dev/fd70 on an empty
directory (i.e., /etc/mount /dev/fd70 /mnt). However you still won't be
able to read the disk on the PC because the flex is in UNIX format, not DOS
format. I don't know offhand of any UNIX to DOS conversion methods other
than what we use here at our location (i.e., TOWERs and PCs connected to a
LAN using remote login and binary file transfer methods in a client/server
environment). I believe I've heard of some method to convert/read UNIX
68000-based formatted disks to DOS but I can't think of any off-hand.
Anybody else know of any packages that do this?
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