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Article #8276Re: Possible to read UNIX floppy with DOS?
From: LCMDR Data
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1991 01:55
Date: Fri, 15 Mar 1991 01:55
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In <1991Mar14.180507.19797@cbnews.att.com> pmd@cbnews.att.com (Paul Dubuc) writes:
>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.
That's all well and good, but if they use different sector sizes/track
configurations then you're screwed unless the program (the MKS toolkit) just
happens to know how to read them...
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