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In article <1992Jul28.220322.24770@mksol.dseg.ti.com> dahla@mksol.dseg.ti.com  
(alexander dahl) writes:
>  In article <1992Jul25.225659.11815@leland.Stanford.EDU> amon@cs.stanford.edu  
writes:
>  >In article <1992Jul25.195150.4262@mksol.dseg.ti.com>  
dahla@mksol.dseg.ti.com  
>  >(alexander dahl) writes:
>  >>  Am I just dreaming or what.  But to get something off of the
>  >>  net I must FTP to a PeeCee machine.  To get it to mine is
>  >>  via Floppy Net.
>  >>  
>  >>  I cannot imagine that it would be that BIG of a deal to    
>  >>  pass out the "new, faster" DOS driver for the NeXT floppy.
>  >>  
>  >>  Did I miss something along the way or did NeXT just decide
>  >>  that everyone was greatfully enjoyed with a disk drive that
>  >>  is slower than a Sinclair floppy?
>  >
>  >	Well, the DOS filesystem on the NeXT *is* slow. So slow that you 
>  >shouldn't use the workspace to transfer files on DOS disks. You should grab 
>  >the mtools from the net. They are infinitely faster. 
>  >
>  >	I've heard that the problem is fixed in 3.0, although I may be
>  >dreaming.
>  >
>  >Lga.
>  >---
>  >                                       |"I don't know what it's called, but
>  >Laurent Amon                           | we're doing one about going to see 
>  >       e-mail: amon@cs.stanford.edu    | a wizard. Something about  
following
>  >           lga@sandman.stanford.edu    | a yellow sick toad. (Moving  
Pictures)
>  
>  
>  Could you enlighten me on these mtools?  Where are they are how are they
>  used??
>  
Since I've had a few requests, I will be compiling the mtools and put them
on sonata and cs.orst. There will be the sources and binaries or those who
don't have the extended system. The binaries will be for the internal drive
only.

	I will probably do that late tonight, Pacific time.

	The mtools are a series of programs to read, write, copy and generally
access files on DOS formatted disquettes in Unix workstations. The command  
syntax is more or less equivalent to their DOS counterpart, like
copy foo a:bar
They are much faster than the workspace, or, from what I've seen from this
thread, equivalent capabilities on Suns.

Hope it helps,

Lga.
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                                       |"I don't know what it's called, but
Laurent Amon                           | we're doing one about going to see 
       e-mail: amon@cs.stanford.edu    | a wizard. Something about following
           lga@sandman.stanford.edu    | a yellow sick toad. (Moving Pictures)