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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mel.connect.com.au!munnari.OZ.AU!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!uwm.edu!lll-winken.llnl.gov!venus.sun.com!news2me.EBay.Sun.COM!centralnews1.Central.Sun.COM!usenet From: lduncan@churchlady.Central.Sun.COM (Lee Duncan) Newsgroups: comp.unix.admin,comp.sys.sun.hardware,comp.unix.solaris,comp.sys.sun.admin,comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc Subject: Re: Using ZIP drive across UNIX hardware platforms? Date: 04 Jan 1996 20:34:39 -0700 Organization: SunSoft Inc., Rocky Mountain Technology Center Lines: 14 Sender: lduncan@churchlady.Central.Sun.COM Distribution: inet Message-ID: <gn5buojwbzk.fsf@churchlady.Central.Sun.COM> References: <4cb9aq$9d5@gilligan.htc.com> <4ccc4l$alb@arrow.va.pubnix.com> Reply-To: lduncan@Central.Sun.COM NNTP-Posting-Host: churchlady.central.sun.com In-reply-to: lidl@va.pubnix.com's message of 2 Jan 1996 17:38:13 -0500 X-Mailer: ViewMail (VM) Version 5.95 (beta) with GNU Emacs 19.29.1 (sparc-sun-solaris2.4, X toolkit) of Mon Oct 9 1995 on bilge X-Disclaimer: My opinions are so off the wall that nobody claims them X-Newsreader: Gnus v5.0.2 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:36569 comp.sys.sun.hardware:31001 comp.unix.solaris:55621 comp.sys.sun.admin:59590 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1824 In answer to Thomas Naughton's question about using ZIP drives to transport data between a SPARC and a PC-based UNIX system, Kurt Lidl wrote: KL> Probably a MS-DOS filesystem would work on both platforms. Unfortunately not true. MS-DOG filesystems require an FDISK table, which offsets everything else on this disk (to simplify some). In short, this won't currently work on SPARCs running Solaris. But, as others have mentioned, tar (cpio, ...) should work. -- Lee Duncan Lee.Duncan@Central.Sun.COM He who wonders discovers that this in itself is wonder. -- M. C. Escher