lnz@babel.UUCP.UUCP (04/10/87)
Path: cernvax!itw From: navajo!itw%CERNVAX.BITNET@wiscvm.wisc.edu (itw) Newsgroups: mod.computers.apollo Keywords: XENIX floppy Date: 10 Apr 87 08:54:33 GMT Distribution: local Organization: CERN, Geneva, Switzerland Lines: 5 Does anyone know an easy way of reading XENIX files TARed onto a 1.2 Mbyte floppy disk , on an APOLLO DN3000 workstation ? The solution must be quick and cheap since we are getting a network connection soon. Thanks -- Ian Wilkie /SPS If Xenis is like MS-DOS in using 512 byte sectors, there is no way currently to read or write such floppies on a DN3000 except through a PC coprocessor. The normal apollo-format floppies use a 1024 byte sector; I've never been able to make MS-DOS read an APOLLO floppy. To solve this problem, I wrote a simple program to transfer bits back and forth between PC-AT's and the APOLLO. It uses the BIOS level floppy I/O calls on the PC to read and write 1024 byte sectors; I don't know if Xenix will give you access to those calls. If it will, this program might be able to help in the future, though obviously not on an existing tar'ed floppy.