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Re: Reading AMIGA-floppies using a UNIX system

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From: myb100
Date: Fri, 14 Sep 1990 10:46
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In article <1990Sep13.182612.6681@uni-paderborn.de>, ill@uni-paderborn.de (Markus Illenseer) writes:
> ferry@chorus.fr (Ferry de Jong) writes:
> 
>>Hello amiga-users,
> 
>>Is there some bright fellow (male/female) who can tell me how to load some
>>sources from amiga-formatted disks into the UNIX machine's we have here.
>>I have some (possible) interesing sources I would like to post to one
>>or another .sources newsgroup but haven't found a way to do this yet.
> 
>>Who knows the answer to this irritating problem???
> [sig deleted]
> Interesting problem which should not be a real problem.
[...several good suggestions deleted...]

Another way to go (which I use regularly) is to use MessyDos (MSH:) on the Amiga
to format/read/write 720k disks, and use MTOOLS on the SPARC stations.
MTOOLS is a set of programmes running under Unix which allow SPARCS to
read/write MS-DOS 720k (and 1.44M too I think) disks.

Look for mtools in comp.sources.unix ..... somewhere.... (I can't remember 
where I last saw it. - if things get too difficult I might be able to find our
sources on our system here somewhere and send them to you)[you=Ferry]

> ********************************************************************************
>    Markus Illenseer                I'm sorry Dave, I'm afraid, I can't do that. 
>      4790 Paderborn ,United Germany           Email: ill@uni-paderborn.de 
> ********************************************************************************
                        ^^^^Nice touch !

Hi from one Markus to another ! :-) 

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Subject: Re: Reading AMIGA-floppies using a UNIX system
Message-ID: <1990Sep14.204602.2829@csc.anu.oz.au>
Date: 14 Sep 90 10:46:02 GMT
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