amstein@condor.metaphor.com (Peter Amstein) (10/09/90)
Archive-name: sparc-mtools/07-Oct-90 Original-posting-by: amstein@condor.metaphor.com (Peter Amstein) Original-subject: How to read MAC or DOS disks on SPARCstation? Archive-site: titan.rice.edu [128.42.1.30] Archive-directory: /sun-source Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti) Well, now that I have a nice new SPARCstation 1+ with its built in floppy on my desk of course I want to use is for all kinds of fun things. Can anyone point me to a utility that can read and write Mac format 1.44 Mb floppies on the SPARC? Or DOS format would work too, since I can read those on the Mac. [[Ed's Note: I don't know of a utility to read MAC disks, however, one called MTOOLS exists which will read DOS formatted disks (in either 720k or 1.44M format). MTOOLS is available from uunet.uu.net (192.48.96.2) in the directory /comp.sources.misc/volume11/sparc-mtools. The files you need are part0{1,2,3}.Z. Additionally, there is a set of patches which correct some problems with 720k reading/writing - these are highly recommended and available from titan.rice.edu (128.42.1.30) in the /sun-source directory under the filename of mtools.patches. -bdg]] I can copy an ASCII text file from a DOS disk by fgrep-ing for the first block block of the file (fgrep -b "Some text in the file" /dev/rfd0 ) and then copying from there with dd. But talk about grungy! Better ideas, anyone? Peter Amstein amstein@metaphor.com