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- From: scharf@lrs.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Ron Scharf)
- Subject: Re: Mac to Sun
- Message-ID: <1993Jan11.135801.1702@lrs.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>
- Organization: LRS
- References: <1993Jan10.211456.11663@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <4948@svin09.info.win.tue.nl>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 13:58:01 GMT
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- wstomv@wsinpa04.win.tue.nl (Tom Verhoeff) writes:
-
- >In article <1993Jan10.211456.11663@afterlife.ncsc.mil> 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.
-
- >To read MS-DOS disks on SUNs you can use the public domain (?) software
- >package called mtools.
-
- If you have a SUN running SUN-OS 4.1.x (Solaris 1.0.1), you may directly
- mount MS-DOS disks. Your /etc/fstab should therefore include a line like:
-
- /dev/fd0 /pcfs pcfs rw,noauto 0 0
-
- After mounting your disk, you can use the /pcfs directory to access files.
-
- Bye
- Ron
-