howard@wbcs.UUCP (Howard Modell) (02/16/89)
I (or rather a customer of mine) has a relatively frequent need to read data from DOS formatted floppies using an Apollo. The "why" of it isn't pertinent, but the customer states that his budget is such that getting a PC for the purpose isn't practical at this time, nor is does it seem appropriate to buy one of Apollo's DPCI/DPCC/DPCE integration solutions. He doesn't need a DOS engine or processing capabilities at all ... he just needs to be able to read DOS formatted data, and the only devices he has with floppy drives are Apollos. The preferred solution would be an Apollo-based utility that performs this chore and nothing else (or little else). It doesn't have to be specifically Unix-based, though it is not an obstacle if it is. Does anyone out there (1) know of such a program, (2) have such a program (preferably with source they could send me), and if so, could they send it to me? Replies should be sent to: howard@ncrwic!wbcs.UUCP or howard@hplabs!hp-sdd!ncr-sd!ncrwic!wbcs.UUCP or howard@scubed!ncr-sd!ncrwic!wbcs.UUCP or howard@uunet!ncrlnk!ncrwic!wbcs.UUCP
hollaar%cs.utah.edu@wasatch.UUCP (Lee Hollaar) (02/17/89)
In article <137@wbcs.UUCP> howard@wbcs.UUCP (Howard Modell) writes: > I (or rather a customer of mine) has a relatively frequent need to read data > from DOS formatted floppies using an Apollo. The "why" of it isn't pertinent, > but the customer states that his budget is such that getting a PC for the > purpose isn't practical at this time, nor is does it seem appropriate to > buy one of Apollo's DPCI/DPCC/DPCE integration solutions. He doesn't need > a DOS engine or processing capabilities at all ... he just needs to be able > to read DOS formatted data, and the only devices he has with floppy drives > are Apollos. > > The preferred solution would be an Apollo-based utility that performs this > chore and nothing else (or little else). It doesn't have to be specifically > Unix-based, though it is not an obstacle if it is. > > Does anyone out there (1) know of such a program ... We have such a program, consisting of a device driver for directly controlling the floppy disk and a utility program that understands the DOS file system (including subdirectories and DOS-style wildcards). It can work with any format floppy disk (360 Kbyte or 1.2 Mbyte; 8, 9, or 15 sectors per track; 1 or 2 sided disks), can read, write, or delete files on the floppy as well as listing its directory, and can do either binary read/writes or will translate the PC <cr><lf> line terminators to or from the Apollo standard newlines. It currently works with 9.7, and is being ported to 10.X. The bad news is that we won't be giving this little goody away, but will be licensing it for a nominal charge. We will be sending information to the local Apollo offices in a couple of weeks, or you can either contact me and I'll send you the information about ordering. Lee Hollaar Email: hollaar@cs.utah.edu Mail: Contexture, Inc. Attn: PCdisk information Post Office Box 8721 Salt Lake City UT 84108
davidsen@steinmetz.ge.com (William E. Davidsen Jr) (02/18/89)
There was a group of utilities to do just this posted to the unix-pc
group several years ago. Just after that I got rid of my unix-pc. As I
recall I got it to work on Xenix with a five minute hack, so it's pretty
portable in SysV. You may be able to get a copy from someone, or get
back to me after you try.
Your suggested addresses all have bang addresses after the @ and
confuse my mailers. You may get more info with a pure uucp or domain
address or one of the flavor user!node!node@node.domain.
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