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- From: lga@sandman.stanford.edu (Laurent Amon)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.sysadmin
- Subject: Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$
- Message-ID: <1992Jul26.192817.15954@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 19:28:17 GMT
- Article-I.D.: leland.1992Jul26.192817.15954
- References: <1992Jul26.172229.14177@dale.ksc.nasa.gov>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: amon@cs.stanford.edu
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
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- In article <1992Jul26.172229.14177@dale.ksc.nasa.gov>
- sdavis@laforge.ksc.nasa.gov (Steve Davis) writes:
- > Laurent Amon writes
- > > 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.
- >
- > Hmmm... What are these "mtools" you speak of?
- >
- There are a set of tools to access a DOS floppy on a UNIX machine. They
- will give you a series of commands, named after the DOS equivalent, with
- an added m in front (mdir, mcopy, mcd,...). They compile on any UNIX machine
- and I don't remember having had to change anything to make them work, at
- least with 1.44MB disks.
-
- You can find them on any comp.sources.unix archive, like at usc.edu,
- or gatekeeper.dec.com. the mtools are in the volume 11, the mtools2
- (a newer version, I presume) in the volume 25.
-
- Hope it helps --- And to anybody who don't have them yet, get them.
-
- 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)
-