rapoport@esresr.UUCP (Edward Rapoport) (12/16/87)
Does anyone have a way of writing files to an MS-DOS floppy on the 3B1 UNIX-PC by a UNIX command which would permit writing multiple files at once rather than having to type the UNIX path name and MS-DOS name and type explicitly into a window for each file as the user agent procedure requires? If you could just do one at a time by a UNIX com- mand that'd be great, a shell script would do the rest. I tried piping input to the /usr/bin/md_write program used by the user agent for MS-DOS write function but it uses the window driver which sucked up my input (which had embedded control characters for the necessary RETURNs and ENTERs) and displayed it haphazardly in the first confirm window and waited there hopelessly. -- Ed Rapoport /\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\ Real Time Development 2409 s. 9th st. Minneapolis, MN 55406 \/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ UUCP: ...ihnp4!meccts!questar!esresr!rapoport
allbery@axcess.UUCP (Brandon S. Allbery) (12/22/87)
There is a set of programs available on the STORE!, based on some MS-DOS disk read/write programs posted to the net a few months ago, which will let you do this and also allow reading/writing binary files. (Useful, since I have to move files between the 3B1 and client machines by writing cpio archives onto MS-DOS floppies....) [BTW, this is in the public section, no "HDB-for-us-too- bad-for-you" nonsense.] The package name is, I believe, MTOOLS. -- ___ ________________, Brandon S. Allbery cbosgd \ ' \/ __ __, __, aXcess Company mandrill| __ | /__> <__ <__ 6615 Center St. #A1-105 !ncoast! / ` | \__. .__> .__> Mentor, OH 44060-4101 necntc | axcess!allbery \___/\________________. Moderator, comp.sources.misc hoptoad/