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dmaster@cbnewsc.att.com (D. R. Wojciechowski) writes:

>I have a '386 Clone at home with a 1.44Meg floppy drive and a
>SUN SPARCstation IPC at work with a 1.44Meg floppy also.  Of
>course I would like to transfer data between the two machines
>at times, and using floppies would be much faster than my 1200
>baud modem.  So the question:  Does anyone know of software for
>either end that will allow me to write disks on one machine and
>read them on the other?  Please send me or post any ideas (free,
>share, or commercial) that you may have.

>Thankyou,

>Dan Wojciechowski
>dmaster@ihlpm.att.com

First question: what version of SunOS?  Version 4.1.1 includes support for
pc file systems.  You mount them as type pcfs I believe.  You probably 
have to be root to run mount on your IPC.  The workstation and the server
I am using right now are running 4.1 so I can't check it.  Try man on
mount and pcfs both.

For either 4.1.1 or 4.1, Doswindow provides complete support for the builtin
floppy on those machines that have them.  This is probably the most painless.

Finally, although I have never used it, many people sing the praises of 
mtools by Emmet Gray.  I just saved a message about the latest patch today
and include it below:

>Xref: msuinfo comp.sources.bugs:3001 unix-pc.sources:325
>Path: msuinfo!netnews.upenn.edu!widener!news.cs.indiana.edu!ux1.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet
>From: egray@osiris.cso.uiuc.edu (Emmet P. Gray)
>Newsgroups: comp.sources.bugs,unix-pc.sources
>Subject: Patch #4 to Mtools v2.0
>Keywords: Mtools
>Message-ID: <1991Apr16.031008.6923@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu>
>Date: 16 Apr 91 03:10:08 GMT
>Sender: usenet@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu (News)
>Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
>Lines: 1562
>
>This is patch #4 to the Mtools v2.0 distribution package.  This patch
>will fix a bug in the mmd command where directories inherited the file
>name extension of the parent directory.  It also adds a feature that
>will allow the copying of zero length files.
>
>Mtools was posted to the unix-pc.sources news group (and mailed to Rich
>Salz, the moderator of comp.sources.unix) on the 17th of September 1990.
>Since then, patches 1-3 have been posted to unix-pc.sources,
>comp.sources.bugs, and emailed to Rich Salz.
>
>The "always current" version of Mtools and all the patches are available
>via anonymous ftp from cerl.cecer.army.mil (129.229.1.101).  I've also
>uploaded the files to the ~ftp/tmp/mtools directory on uunet.uu.net.
>
>Emmet P. Gray				US Army, HQ III Corps & Fort Hood
>...!uunet!uiucuxc!fthood!egray		Attn: AFZF-DE-ENV
>fthood!egray@uxc.cso.uiuc.edu		Directorate of Engineering & Housing
>					Environmental Management Office
>					Fort Hood, TX 76544-5057
>
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Hope this is of some use.

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