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- From: reid@skorpio.Usask.ca (Irving Reid)
- Subject: Re: Writing MAC-readable floppies from Sparcstation
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.224744.11647@access.usask.ca>
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- Organization: University of Saskatchewan
- References: <1992Aug20.154105.2005@erg.sri.com> <1992Aug20.180605.23085@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 22:47:44 GMT
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- echong@porpoise.ecn.purdue.edu (Edwin Chong) writes:
-
- >In article <1992Aug20.154105.2005@erg.sri.com> bienk@erg.sri.com (Marie Bienkowski) writes:
- >>The answer is a freeware MAC utility called "suntar" (for "Speranza's
- >>untar") that is available from sumex (or umich, I'm told) that runs
- >>on the MAC and that will read floppies written using UNIX "tar" or "bar."
-
-
- >The Sun Sparcstation is capable of formating and writing to MS-DOS
- >formatted diskettes. The Mac is capable of reading/writing from/to
- >MS-DOS diskettes, using Apple File Exchange (comes with System 7).
- >Why is there a need for Suntar?
-
- Sparcs will read and write the same physical format as MS-DOS and Mac
- FDHD drives (same track and sector layout, etc.). What they don't do
- is put a valid DOS directory on the disk. AFE reads the DOS
- directory from the disk; since there isn't one, AFE won't work.
-
- - irving (reid@cs.usask.ca) -
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