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Article #9260Re: SUN <-> PC data transfers
From: Arto V. Viitanen
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 05:55
Date: Tue, 16 Apr 1991 05:55
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>>>>> On 15 Apr 91 13:16:38 GMT, dmaster@cbnewsc.att.com (D. R. Wojciechowski) said: Dan> I have a '386 Clone at home with a 1.44Meg floppy drive and a Dan> SUN SPARCstation IPC at work with a 1.44Meg floppy also. Of Dan> course I would like to transfer data between the two machines Dan> at times, and using floppies would be much faster than my 1200 Dan> baud modem. So the question: Does anyone know of software for Dan> either end that will allow me to write disks on one machine and Dan> read them on the other? Please send me or post any ideas (free, Dan> share, or commercial) that you may have. Yes. I am writing this from SUN SPARCstation IPC, having a fractal generated by WINfract 3.1 on '386 clone, so it works ! I transferred the picture (GIF) using SUN's pcfs, i.e file system which makes PC's floppy look like SUN file system. It can be optionally compiled to IPC's kernel. Read the manuals, or ask your system administrator to compile them. BTM. pcfs is slow, but I think it beats 1200 baud modem... -- Arto V. Viitanen email: av@kielo.uta.fi University Of Tampere, av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi Finland
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!sdd.hp.com!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!uupsi!sunic!news.funet.fi!uta!kielo!av From: av@kielo.uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Subject: Re: SUN <-> PC data transfers Message-ID: <AV.91Apr16085505@kielo.uta.fi> Date: 16 Apr 91 05:55:05 GMT References: <1991Apr15.131638.12661@cbnewsc.att.com> Sender: news@uta.fi Reply-To: av@uta.fi (Arto V. Viitanen) Followup-To: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc Organization: University of Tampere, Finland Lines: 22 Nntp-Posting-Host: uta.fi In-reply-to: dmaster@cbnewsc.att.com's message of 15 Apr 91 13:16:38 GMT