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RE: [SLE] Need DOS or WIN utility for housekeeping
- From: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 13 Nov 2005 15:54:51 +0000 (UTC)
- Message-id: <XFMail.051113155612.Ted.Harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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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> 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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E-Mail: (Ted Harding) <Ted.Harding@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Fax-to-email: +44 (0)870 094 0861
Date: 13-Nov-05 Time: 15:56:09
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