john@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (John Veregge) (12/30/90)
Archive-name: hardware/floppies/mtools/1990-12-08 Archive-directory: uunet.uu.net:/comp.sources.misc/volume11/sparc-mtools/ [192.48.96.2] Original-posting-by: john@nereid.jpl.nasa.gov (John Veregge) Original-subject: Re: Looking for Amiga <--> SPARCstation 1 disk exchange utilities Reposted-by: emv@ox.com (Edward Vielmetti) 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