kph@blackhole.bae.bellcore.com (Keith P. Hawkins) (05/03/91)
Hello NeXT Enthusiasts. I was wondering if there is a way for me to read in files on my PLI floppy drive from a floppy which was written by my Sun SPARCstation IPC. I do not know much about device drivers and file formats, etc. If this type of transfer is possible, a simple set of directions would be greatly appreciated. My only access to the archives, etc. is from my Sun at work. I'd like to be able to do some "sneaker net" transfers to my Next at home. Thanks in advance to all who respond, Keith
melling@cs.psu.edu (Michael D Mellinger) (05/03/91)
In article <1991May3.161600.15282@bellcore.bellcore.com> kph@blackhole.bae.bellcore.com (Keith P. Hawkins) writes:
Hello NeXT Enthusiasts.
I was wondering if there is a way for me to read in files on my PLI
floppy drive from a floppy which was written by my Sun SPARCstation IPC.
I do not know much about device drivers and file formats, etc. If
this type of transfer is possible, a simple set of directions would be greatly
appreciated.
My only access to the archives, etc. is from my Sun at work. I'd like to
be able to do some "sneaker net" transfers to my Next at home.
Both the Sun and NeXT read MS DOS formatted disks, so you shouldn't
have any problem if you format your disk as DOS. To deal with the
filename length limits, you might want to tar (compress for space)
directories.
-Mike