Re: SUN <-> PC data transfers

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From: Arto V. Viitanen
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1991 05:56

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>>>>> On 17 Apr 91 19:40:02 GMT, andy@mks.com (Andy Toy) said:


Andy> You can mount the floppy on your SUN SPARCStation IPC as a pcfs
Andy> filesystem.  This is a feature of SunOS 4.1.1 so you need this version
Andy> of SunOS.  There is also a package called MTOOLS for the SUN which
Andy> allows it to access MS-DOS diskettes.  Check the
Andy> comp.sources.{misc,unix} archive sites for it.

I tried both and there are two reasons why I prefer mtools:

1)	you need to be root to use pcfs but anyone can use mtools

2)	mtools is 7 (seven !) times faster than pcfs (tried in copying 440 k
	file from floppy to harddisk)

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Arto V. Viitanen				         email: av@kielo.uta.fi
University Of Tampere,				   	    av@ohdake.cs.uta.fi
Finland

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