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- From: maynard@esther.msc.cornell.edu (Maynard J. Handley)
- Subject: Re: Writing MAC-readable floppies from Sparcstation
- Message-ID: <1992Aug21.000655.2800@msc.cornell.edu>
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- References: <1992Aug20.154105.2005@erg.sri.com> <1992Aug20.180605.23085@noose.ecn.purdue.edu> <1992Aug20.224744.11647@access.usask.ca> <1992Aug20.231921.2268@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>
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- Date: Fri, 21 Aug 1992 00:06:55 GMT
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- In article <1992Aug20.231921.2268@noose.ecn.purdue.edu>,
- echong@porpoise.ecn.purdue.edu (Edwin Chong) writes:
- >In article <1992Aug20.224744.11647@access.usask.ca> reid@skorpio.Usask.ca
- >(Irving Reid) writes:
- >>
- >>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.
- >
- >I use "fdformat -d" on my Sparc to format diskettes, and it puts a
- >valid DOS direcotry. I use "mwrite" and "mread" to write/read the
- >diskettes. AFE works fine with this setup. I do it all the time.
- >
- >echong@ecn.purdue.edu
-
- But if you want to speak to a Mac, not a DOS box, there are substantial
- advantages to Suntar. Among these are
- 1) automatic DeHQX
- 2) automatic DeMacBinary
- 3) much better interface than AFE
- 4) retain decent length, yupper and lower case file names
-
- Maynard Handley
-