SUN to Amiga disk conversions
Harvey Taylor
Harvey_Taylor at mindlink.UUCP
Wed Mar 6 14:07:55 AEST 1991
In <111306.16298 at timbuk.cray.com>, stuart at sequoia.cray.com
(Stuart Mitchell) writes:
[and basically somebody else about every month]
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|> 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
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