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- Utilities to transfer data to/from unix boxes with floppy drives
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-
- These are the utilities I use. (source & binaries included).
- They are not packaged enough to be posted on comp.[sources|binaries].atari.st,
- but will work as un-arced.
-
- Raw2tar, Tar2raw:
- =================
-
- How to use them:
-
- On unix: (name of device my vary: on sony: /dev/flopd, on suns ?)
-
- UNIX | <-- tar xfv /dev/floppy <-- | Raw disk, double sided, 9 sectors
- directory | --> tar cfv /dev/floppy . --> | with no directory structure
-
- On st:
-
- TOS | --> ctar d:\a.tar <dir> --> | D:\a.tar | --> tar2raw --> | Raw
- disk | <-- detar d:\a.tar <-- | tar file | <-- raw2tar <-- | disk
-
- You must create yourself the ramdisk in D: with a sufficient size to hold
- the tar file. TOS and raw disk must be formatted. I included here ctar
- and detar, whose docs and sources are on terminator.cc.umich.edu
-
- Unixflop:
- =========
-
- This is an attempt to make one program creating the tar file in its own
- memory, thus avoiding to create a ramdisk and use a separate tar program
- on the ST. It works, but ONLY in the UNIX->ST direction (de-taring)!!!
- It is not finished, and will bomb on the opposite use.
-
- unixflop will gobble up the raw unix disk in memory, the prompt you for
- a formatted TOS disk to write files in tos format. It works very well, the
- only bug is that, due to my non-understanding of GEM, you may have to reboot
- your ST after exiting it by clicking on the close box, (the mouse freezes).
- Apparently, if you only use the keyboard, all works Ok.
- My main use was this way of the transfer, so I didn't have the motivation
- to finish the other side of unixflop...
-
- Copyright:
- ==========
-
- I release these programs in the public domain, you can do ANYTHING with
- them. (I compiled them with Laser C, but they should work with any ST C
- compiler)
-
- Of course, I will appreciate if you send me back or post your improvements.
-
- Colas Nahaboo, Bull Research France -- Koala Project -- GWM X11 Window Manager
- colas@avahi.inria.fr Phone: (33) 93.65.77.70, Fax: (33) 93 65 77 66
- INRIA - Sophia Antipolis, 2004, rte des Lucioles, 06565 Valbonne Cedex, FRANCE
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