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- From: lga@sandman.stanford.edu(Laurent Amon)
- Subject: Re: DOS Drive is Slow!!!!!#%$@#&^#@$
- Message-ID: <1992Jul29.004241.17600@leland.Stanford.EDU>
- Sender: news@leland.Stanford.EDU (Mr News)
- Reply-To: amon@cs.stanford.edu
- Organization: DSO, Stanford University
- References: <1992Jul28.220322.24770@mksol.dseg.ti.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Jul 92 00:42:41 GMT
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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.
- ---
- |"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)
-