Need utility for Sun to read MS-DOS filesystem image
Hans Lachman
lachman at arisia.xerox.com
Mon Jul 2 10:54:48 AEST 1990
I have a 3.5" 1.44MB floppy disk with MS-DOS files on it. I also have a
SPARCstation 1 with a 3.5" floppy disk drive. I would like to copy my
MS-DOS files from the floppy into the Sun filesystem.
I put the floppy into the Sun floppy drive and did the following:
cat /dev/rfd0a > /tmp/foo
The whole floppy filesystem got copied into /tmp/foo. With Emacs, I found
that all my files were imbedded in this file, intact. But there are a lot
of files. What I need now is a program that extracts all of my files from
this one big file, creating subdirectories as needed.
I looked at "mtools" and I don't think they do what I want.
If anyone knows of a slick utility that will help, please EMAIL ME
DIRECTLY. If there is none, the next best thing would be a pointer to an
explanation of the MS-DOS filesystem format. Thanks,
Hans Lachman
lachman at arisia.xerox.com
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