john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) (05/13/89)
I'm not real familiar with Xenix. I've been using Microport Unix for several years. Can anyone tell me if Xenix has DOS interface tools to enable copying text/binary files from Xenix to a DOS-format diskette ? I need to copy some shell scripts to a floppy and then view/edit the files under DOS. Can anyone lend any pointers ? Also, if I dumped some files to a high density diskette with say, cpio... could I read that diskette on my Microport system ? I've never tried exchanging cpio floppies between systems before. John -- John Gayman, WA3WBU | UUCP: uunet!wa3wbu!john 1869 Valley Rd. | ARPA: john@wa3wbu.uu.net Marysville, PA 17053 | Packet: WA3WBU @ AK3P
ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) (05/13/89)
In article <425@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes: > > I'm not real familiar with Xenix. I've been using Microport Unix for >several years. Can anyone tell me if Xenix has DOS interface tools to >enable copying text/binary files from Xenix to a DOS-format diskette ? I have SCO 286 Xenix. It has a reasonably complete set of utilities for bidirectional copying between Xenix and MSDOS, not only to floppies but also to a MSDOS hard disk partition. The only problems I've noted in heavy usage are: (a) the dosformat does not support all common MSDOS formats (no 1.44 meg, for example) and (b) copies from Xenix -> MSDOS on the same hard disk are ridiculously slow (MSDOS -> Xenix is much faster); (c) on rare occasions the doscp command insists on copying into bad tracks on the MSDOS partition. The copy utilities have line conversion options. >I need to copy some shell scripts to a floppy and then view/edit the >files under DOS. Can anyone lend any pointers ? Also, if I dumped >some files to a high density diskette with say, cpio... could I read that >diskette on my Microport system ? I've never tried exchanging cpio >floppies between systems before. Not having a copy of Microport ~Chapter 11~ Unix, I cannot speak to the last question. In any event tar is usually a better choice than cpio. I can provide a version of tar that runs under **IX and MSDOS. I have run SCO Xenix cpio disks to MSDOS using the cpio that comes with the MKS Toolkit. After producing a tar that runs under MSDOS, I stopped using cpio. For more information: Earl H. Kinmonth History Department University of California, Davis Davis, California 95616 916-752-1636 (2300-0800 PDT for FAX) 916-752-0776 (secretary) ucbvax!ucdavis!ucdked!cck (email) cc-dnet.ucdavis.edu [128.120.2.251] (request ucdked, login as guest)
daveh@marob.MASA.COM (Dave Hammond) (05/16/89)
In article <425@wa3wbu.UUCP> john@wa3wbu.UUCP (John Gayman) writes: > I'm not real familiar with Xenix. I've been using Microport Unix for >several years. Can anyone tell me if Xenix has DOS interface tools to >enable copying text/binary files from Xenix to a DOS-format diskette ? >I need to copy some shell scripts to a floppy and then view/edit the >files under DOS. Can anyone lend any pointers ? [ John will likely get billions of responses, however ... :-) ] Xenix-to-DOS file mgmt tools: doscp Copy a file from DOS volume to Xenix, or vice-versa. Does all text line-end conversions. The "-r" flag bypasses conversion for binary files. dosls Does a "DIR" of the DOS volume. dosrm Removes a file from a DOS volume. dosmkdir Makes a subdirectory on a DOS volume. dosrmdir Removes ... Now, althgether, let us say: "RTFM". -- Dave Hammond daveh@marob.masa.com