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- From: lam@mrcnext.cso.uiuc.edu (Ken Lam)
- Subject: Re: Mac to Sun
- References: <1993Jan10.211456.11663@afterlife.ncsc.mil>
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- Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana
- Date: Sun, 10 Jan 1993 23:19:13 GMT
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- mlbelan@afterlife.ncsc.mil (Mark Belangee) writes:
-
- >I'm interesting in porting some text files from a macintosh to a sun using
- >only disks. Question: What's the best way to do this?
-
- >I've tried saving the files to disks on my mac using MS-DOS format, but
- >I don't know how to tell the sun to read a MS DOS disk. I've heard that it
- >is possible.
-
- >Is there another way? Or, does anyone have a sol'n to this problem.
-
- Yes, SUN Sparcs can write/read msdos floppies. If you save your mac files as
- msdos format. Then you can either
-
- 1) if you have superuser privs, type mount /pcfs
- and the disk will appear under the /pcfs directory
-
- 2) have the sys-adm install mtools which allows non-superusers to access
- ms-dos floppies.
-
- Other way is to ftp/mail them to the sun.
-
- I prefer ftp myself. it is quicker.
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