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- From: jayb@laplace.MATH.ColoState.EDU (Jay Bourland)
- Subject: Re: Mac disk on a SparcStation: a simpler method
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- In-Reply-To: bohus@math.rutgers.edu's message of 26 Jan 93 19:43:33 GMT
- Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 20:25:24 GMT
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- In article <Jan.26.14.43.33.1993.2653@math.rutgers.edu> bohus@math.rutgers.edu (Geza Bohus) writes:
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- > I already answered the original question by email, but it seems that
- > several people missed a very simple solution: tar. A small and free
- > utility on the Mac can read/write disks in tar format. You need a high
- > density disk formatted on the Mac and that's it. On the Unix you type
- ^^^^^^^^^
- This is all correct except that the disk does not have to be
- formatted! You have to start suntar on the mac before inserting the
- disk, however. There are several nice things about this approach.
- (1) Since the disk doesn't have to be formatted, you can use the whole
- 2Mb on the HD instead of just 1.44.
- (2) You don't have to mount the disk on your Unix box, which is a
- head-ache in a multi-user environment.
- (3) Suntar also understands bar, which is the disk-related cousin to
- tar.
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