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Article #8275Re: Possible to read UNIX floppy with DOS?
From: Paul Dubuc
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1991 18:05
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1991 18:05
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In article <0055@starsend.UUCP> floyd@starsend.UUCP (Floyd Miller) writes: }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? The MKS Toolkit has a cpio utility for DOS. I have been able to unpack cpio archive files with it. (Files were made under UNIX System V and downloaded to my PC with a communications program). It renames files that are longer than 11 characters. I haven't tried it directly from floppy, but I see no reason that it shouldn't work. -- Paul Dubuc | "For religion all men are equal, as all pennies att!cbvox!pmd | are equal, because the only value in any of them | is that they bear the image of the king." | G. K. Chesterton
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!cs.utexas.edu!usc!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!pacific.mps.ohio-state.edu!linac!att!cbnews!pmd From: pmd@cbnews.att.com (Paul Dubuc) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc,comp.os.msdos.misc,alt.msdos.programmer Subject: Re: Possible to read UNIX floppy with DOS? Keywords: Unix, CPIO, Floppy, DOS Message-ID: <1991Mar14.180507.19797@cbnews.att.com> Date: 14 Mar 91 18:05:07 GMT References: <0055@starsend.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22