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How can I transfer floppies back and forth between MS-DOS and Sparc?

April 26, 2017floppies Forth MS-DOS sparc transfer

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How can I transfer floppies back and forth between MS-DOS and Sparc?

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There are two packages which allow you to do this(mtools and mntdsk) Mtools writes directly to the floppy device and it does not require special privileges. It is faster than mntdsk but it requires the user to learn a new set of commands. mntdisk “mounts” the floppy using the “pcfs” filesystem type. Once mounted you can use regular UNIX commands(cp,mv,and rm) to access it. A copy of mtools can be found on thor.ece.uc.edu. Get the file /pub/sun-faq/mtools-2.0.7.tar.Z Mntdisk is available in your local comp.sources.misc, Volume 22, Issue 31. Mntdsk can be used to mount CD-ROMS and even UFS floppies. Note: You should not use “setuid” shell scripts for mounting floppies.