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["Lonn Dugan" <lonn@xxxxxxxxx>]

Problem is no Unix/Linux on any box in the house. Want to consolidate
massive clutter of unix floppies -- very old stuff (1985 through 1995).
Don't want to have that chore not yet done when I dive into Linux in
November or early December.

Lonn C. Dugan

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ted Harding [mailto:Ted.Harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Sunday, November 13, 2005 10:56
> To: Lonn Dugan
> Cc: suse-linux-e
> Subject: RE: [SLE] Need DOS or WIN utility for housekeeping
>
>
> On 13-Nov-05 Lonn Dugan wrote:
> > I had some stuff like this 20 years ago, but don't know if it
> > was in DR DOS or SCO Unix. I can't  go to either of those now
> > (maybe DR DOS 6 is possible).
> >
> > Is there a file copy utility for WINDOWS or DOS to copy unix files on
> > floppies to WIN or dos files system (and vice-versa) that can be used
> > without Linux or Unix on the machine?
>
> Not sure what the problem is here. Is it that the floppies
> have Unix/Linux filesystems on them?
>
> If all you need is to transfer files from a Linux system to
> a DOS/Win system by using floppies, then you can use the
> 'mcopy' command in Linux to put the files on a floppy with
> the DOS filesystem, and they will be read off perfectly well.
>
> With the advantage that the standard preformatting on floppies
> is DOS-oriented, so you just take the floppy out of the box,
> put it in the drive, and then run 'mcopy'.
>
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> Date: 13-Nov-05                                       Time: 15:56:09
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