Possible to read UNIX floppy with DOS?

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From: Floyd Miller
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 1991 20:12

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I have a set of floppies comprising a CPIO archive created by some
version of PC-Unix (ISC or SCO).  Now I want to read it with DOS.

I'm not so much concerned with extracting the files.  I mainly want
to read the byte stream off the floppy to transfer it to a Sun work-
station.  [no floppy device on my Sun, no Unix on my PC].

Is there, perhaps, a DOS utility available to read Unix floppies?
Or a way to access the floppy on an AT machine so as to bypass
whatever is looking for the DOS format?

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From: floyd@starsend.UUCP (Floyd Miller)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,alt.msdos.programmer
Subject: Possible to read UNIX floppy with DOS?
Keywords: Unix, CPIO, Floppy, DOS
Message-ID: <0055@starsend.UUCP>
Date: 13 Mar 91 20:12:19 GMT
Reply-To: floyd@starsend.UUCP (Floyd Miller)
Organization: Woodward McCoach, Inc.
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