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carpente@corinth.uucp (Michael A. Carpenter OSBU North) writes:
>Any ideas?  I can continue to do the extra hop (Sun, PC, Amiga), but
>I'd prefer to do it straight.


I use the sparc-mtools (ftp-ed from hydra.helsinki.fi from the directory
pub/archives/comp.misc.sources/sparc-mtools) since a week and I am very
happy with it in combination with the great `MessyDos' handler from Olaf
Seibert. This last MSDOS filehandler permits me to do an Amiga zoo:
	zoo -add msh:NiceStuff What Ever You Want

creating the MSDOS file NICESTUF.ZOO and read it into our Sparcstation
(notice the messed up things):
	mcopy a:NICESTUF.ZOO NiceStuff.zoo
	
and to unpack it using zoo on our UNIX box with:
	zoo x// NiceStuff
	
and vice versa without any problem (so far). We use the latest version
of zoo (is it 2.1?). 

I have installed all mtools in /usr/local/bin which is standard for us.
I have also made an overall manual page from the README file belonging
to the mtools (see at the end).

Best copying around,

Piet Tutelaers
rcpt@urc.tue.nl


-------------------mtools.1------------------------------------------
.\" t
.TH MTOOLS 1 "version 1.6.2 - 5 Jul 89" Public
.SH NAME
Mtools \- tools for handling MSDOS floppies on SPARCstation1
.SH DESCRIPTION
This is a collection of MSDOS tools to allow you to read and write to
MSDOS formatted diskettes from a Unix based system.
.PP
The following MSDOS commands are emulated:
.PP
.TS
lll.
Mtool	MSDOS
name	equivalent	Description
_
mcopy	COPY		copy MSDOS files to/from Unix
mdel	DEL/ERASE	delete a MSDOS file
mdir	DIR		display a MSDOS directory
mkdfs	FORMAT		Format and build s DOS file system.
mmd	MD/MKDIR	make a MSDOS sub directory
mrd	RD/RMDIR	remove a MSDOS sub directory
mread	COPY		low level read (copy) a MSDOS file to Unix
mren	REN/RENAME	rename an existing MSDOS file
mtype	TYPE		display contents of a MSDOS file
mwrite	COPY		low level write (copy) a Unix file to MSDOS
*)	CD		change working directory
.TE
	*) by use of the environmental variable MCWD
.PP
The formats of IBM PC floppy disk drives are:
.PP
.TS
ccccc.
sectors	tracks	total	disk	introduced
per	per	capacity	size	in MSDOS
track	side 
8	40	160k	5.25	1.0
9	40	180k	5.25	1.1
8	40	320k	5.25	2.0
9	40	360k	5.25	2.0
15	80	1.2M	5.25	3.0
9	80	720k	3.5	3.1
18	80	1.4M	3.5	3.2
.TE

.PP
The disk geometry can be kept in the environment for unusual cases,
init.c will pass "NCYL", "NSECT" and "NTRACK" to the disk parameter
setting routine (if any).  This should be documented in an "mtools"
manual page giving an overview of the whole package,  this file is a 
start.
.PP
The manuals are very terse...  it's assumed that the reader is already
familiar with MSDOS.
.PP
The use of the environmental variable MCWD to keep track of the current
working directory is a little awkward, especially since there is no
'change directory' command.  Bourne shell users will have to type two
commands to initially set their working directory, ie:
.IP
.nf
MCWD=/TMP
export MCWD
.PP
Wildcards are only applied to filenames and not to directory names.  For
example '/usr/local/*.c' is appropriate, but '/usr/l*/main.c' is not.
.PP
I really wanted to avoid the use of a 'text' mode and a 'data' mode when
transferring files, but I couldn't find a better way.  It gets rather
confusing and it's quite possible to mess up a file if you apply the
text mode when it is not appropriate (ie:  to a COM or EXE file).
Likewise, if you forget to apply the text mode (to a Unix text file)
then if the file is used under MSDOS, it will be missing carriage
returns.  However, if you aren't going to use the files on your Unix
system (you just intend to hold the files and then transfer them back to
MSDOS later) then you shouldn't use the text mode during either mread or
mwrite.  This is because, the text mode is only useful if the files are
gonna be used under Unix.
.PP
The implementation of the Mcopy command is somewhat clumbsy since the
MSDOS drive designation "A:" is used.  Mcopy is really a front-end to
the low level Mread and Mwrite commands.
.PP
There are is a shell archives called "Unixpc.shar" that contain files
specific to the AT&T Unix PC 7300/3b1.
.SH "SEE ALSO"
mcopy (1), mdel (1), mdir (1), mkdfs (1), mmd (1), mrd (1), mread (1), mren (1), mtype (1), 
mwrite (1), 
.SH AUTHOR
.nf
Emmet P. Gray (...!uunet!uiucuxc!fthood!egray)
.PP
This manual page is a fast hack of the `Readme' file belonging to this
package (Piet Tutelaers -- rcpt@urc.tue.nl)