Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com (12/08/90)
I have a large number of files residing on a SPARCstation I, which I would
like to transfer to my Amiga 1000. I note with interest that both of
these machines have 3.5" floppy disk drives, and, although I realize that
just having drives for the same size diskettes is far from complete
compatibility, I've seen enough miracles performed to ask:
Is there any utility, PD or otherwise, for either the Amiga or the SPARC-
station, which will allow either of them to read/write the other's disk
format? This would save me a tremendous amount of time compared with my
only current alternative, 2400-baud Kermit...
Please reply via e-mail even if you also post, as I am unable to keep up
with the volume of these newsgroups (comp.sys.sun and comp.sys.amiga);
thanks in advance for any replies!
[[Ed's Note: Although there probably does not exist a Sparc->Amiga format
program, you could probably use MTOOLS to write your Sparc files out to
disk in MS-DOS format and then use some other Amiga tool to read the
MS-DOS files on your Amiga. -bdg]]
Chris Chiesa
Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.comjohn@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (John Veregge) (12/09/90)
In article <630@brchh104.bnr.ca>, Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com writes: |> ... |> Is there any utility, PD or otherwise, for either the Amiga or the SPARC- |> station, which will allow either of them to read/write the other's disk |> format? ... |> |> [[Ed's Note: Although there probably does not exist a Sparc->Amiga format |> program, you could probably use MTOOLS to write your Sparc files out to |> disk in MS-DOS format and then use some other Amiga tool to read the |> MS-DOS files on your Amiga. -bdg]] I am also interested in Amiga <==> Sparc disk transfers. My use of 'man [-k] mtools' has been without success. So, what be and where be these MTOOLS? [[Ed's Note: Since it seems to be a very commonly asked question, here is the information for MTOOLS again. The program was first reviewed in v9n142 by Erach Irani (irani@umn.edu) who was looking for ways to transfer files from his Sparcstation to an IBM PC. He concluded that MTOOLS was the fastest/easiest way to do this. At the time of writing, there were a few patches that dealt with writing in 720k format (low density) and the like. I later (v9n212) got these from the author (Viktor Dukhovni - viktor@math.princeton.edu) and made them available on Titan. So.... MTOOLS Main Program Source: 23~FTP Hostname : uunet.uu.net (192.48.96.2) Directory: comp.sources.misc/volume11/sparc-mtools Filenames: part{01|02|03}.Z (I'm not sure what kind of archive server services uunet offers - I keep hearing rumors about them existing but being only for uunet customers. Your best bet if you don't have FTP access would be to use BITFTP at Princeton.) MTOOLS Patches: FTP Hostname : titan.rice.edu (128.42.1.30) Directory: sun-source Filename : mtools.patches Filesize : 11617 bytes Archive Server Address: archive-server@rice.edu Archive Server Command: send sun-source mtools.patches
lindner@uunet.uu.net (Paul Lindner) (12/10/90)
In <724@brchh104.bnr.ca> john@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (John Veregge) writes: >In article <630@brchh104.bnr.ca>, Chris_F_Chiesa@cup.portal.com writes: >|> ... >|> Is there any utility, PD or otherwise, for either the Amiga or the SPARC- >|> station, which will allow either of them to read/write the other's disk >|> format? ... >I am also interested in Amiga <==> Sparc disk transfers. [a little plug about mtools here] Another possible solution is to convince your sysadmin to upgrade to SunOS 4.1.1. There are a few new goodies in this release such as [drum roll please] a pcfs. [i.e. MS-DOS based filesystem] I haven't had much time to play with it. (Upgrading 30+ machines to 4.1.1 does that to you!) But I was able to format a pc disk and mount it as a file system. Really cool. Try it, you'll like it! Paul Lindner, Univ. of MN \ Microcomputer / Pauls Law: You can't IT Sun dude, & UofM ACM pres \ Workstation / fall off the floor. lindner@boombox.micro.umn.edu \ Networks / {...!rutgers!umn-cs!lindner} | | | | | | | | |||||\ Center /||||| | | | | | | | |