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- From: wyk1@cunixa.cc.columbia.edu (Won Y Kim)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.amiga
- Subject: Re: Query: about A2410 and reading and writing from the disk!
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.191108.11459@news.columbia.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 19:11:08 GMT
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- In article <1992Sep2.113226.58575@cc.usu.edu> slmt9@cc.usu.edu (Joshua Dinerstein) writes:
- > Hi, All.
-
- Hi! Josh!
-
- >First my friend just bought an A3000 ux. It has the A2410, ULowell (sp)
- >card, in it.And some of our tests have proved that this card does indeed work.
- >What we are wondering is if there is anyway to get the standard amiga screen to
- >go to the card for output. So that we don't have to keep moving between
- >monitors.
-
- Ok, In Unix 2.1 and 2.1p2a
- there is a facility called xdm which starts up the x windows (X11R4) on
- a console window on bootup. (usually set up as con10 or alt-F10)
- so you can get actually log in on that screen (it will ask for
- login: and password:) . and depending on your set up based on the
- ~/.xsession file, you will at least get 1 shell window and you can
- start doing thinsg from there.
-
- You need unix 2.1 to do this however. (the instruction should be in the
- addendum)
-
- > Ok, Second. Is there a way under Amiga Unix to read and write from
- >df0:? And if there is is it in Amiga format, IBM format, or something
- >altogether different?
-
- Unix can use df0: etc.. but so far there is no facility for reading
- amigados format. (that I know of)
- Between amydos and amyunix, there is the "BRU" format which you can
- call from unix and amigados (2.04 and above)
-
- bru directly writes to the media and unix understands the format.
- do "$ bru -cvvv" in the directory you want to back it up
- and "$ bru -xCvvv" in the target directory to restore from the archive
-
- the device that bru uses is listed in " s:brutab" or "/etc/brutab"
- and is the first uncommented device listing.
-
- So to x-fer files to from amigados and unix, easiest thing would be
- to use bru (on a large size media, such as tape drives, floppies take
- too long :-)
-
- it automatically asks for the next floppy/tape etc.. for multivolume
- archives.
-
- hope this helps.
- Won
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