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- From: rigby@pyramid.unr.edu (Wayne Rigby)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.applications
- Subject: Re: Amiga <-> Unix
- Message-ID: <4184@equinox.unr.edu>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 05:29:36 GMT
- References: <21JUL199207103915@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov>
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- Organization: University of Nevada, Reno Department of Computer Science
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- In article <21JUL199207103915@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov> smneyln@ariel.lerc.nasa.gov (Michael Neylon) writes:
- >Is there any way that one can read/write data between a UNIX (
- >sun spacestation2) machine and an Amiga? If necessary, I can use
- >CrossDOS to do an intermediate step at IBM format...
-
- Yes. Most Unix boxes that have 3.5 inch drives usually read and write IBM
- formats. The Sun Sparc IPC's at my university did and Sun 2's probably do
- too. You just take a double density floppy (or high density if you have
- the AE HD drive or one of the 3000's with CBM's HD drive), and format it
- either on an IBM, Amiga, the Sun, whatever. Save to disk on the Sun, read
- on the Amiga using CrossDOS or whatever. There are some good PD/SW software
- that will read IBM disks out there. I used MTOOLs on the Sparc (and RS6000's)
- to format and write my disks.
-
- Have fun!
-
- Wayne Rigby
- Computer and Systems Engineer
- rigby@cs.unr.edy
-