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- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.misc
- Path: sparky!uunet!island!cirino
- From: cirino@island.COM (Mark Cirino)
- Subject: Re: Mac to Sun
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.152831.1048@island.COM>
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- References: <1993Jan10.211456.11663@afterlife.ncsc.mil> <4948@svin09.info.win.tue.nl> <1993Jan11.135801.1702@lrs.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de>
- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 1993 15:28:31 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <1993Jan11.135801.1702@lrs.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de> scharf@lrs.e-technik.uni-erlangen.de (Ron Scharf) writes:
- >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
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