Harvey_Taylor@mindlink.UUCP (Harvey Taylor) (03/06/91)
In <111306.16298@timbuk.cray.com>, stuart@sequoia.cray.com (Stuart Mitchell) writes: [and basically somebody else about every month] [no attribute given] |> At the moment I follow the following conversion path : |> |> Sun -> ethernet -> appletalk -> Mac -> MS-DOS disk -> Amiga | |There is a way to reduce this chain by using the "mtools" package which |allows SPARCstation users to read/write MS-DOS format disks. It's |available by anon. ftp from wuarchive.wustl.edu in directory |mirrors/unix-c/utils, filename: mtools.tar-z. I believe that SunOS 4.1.1 |actually supports MS-DOS floppies directly anyway (although I can't |confirm that for definite as we don't have any SPARC's running 4.1.1 |*and* having a floppy drive. | Would somebody more knowledgeable comment on the relative difficulty of writing a SUNOSFileSystem for the Amiga. We already have MSDosFileSystems. How much problem would it be to port ufs [BSD FS, I believe] to AmigaDOS? -het "This is not a videogame! This is not a videogame!" - furious Iraqui woman to TV crew Harvey Taylor Meta Media Productions uunet!van-bc!rsoft!mindlink!Harvey_Taylor a186@mindlink.UUCP