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From: lidl@va.pubnix.com (Kurt J. Lidl)
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: 2 Jan 1996 17:38:13 -0500
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Thomas Naughton <naughton@htc.com> wrote:
>	I have tried to use `dd`, and `tar`, but because it's not a
>tape drive, it doesn't seem to work right.

Well, tar should work OK.

It worked OK for me.  Make sure you use the raw device for
reading and writing...

>Both systems don't use the same type of filesystem, so I can't take a
>filesystems that was created on one, and mount it on the other.

Of course not, one is big-endian and one is little-endian, not to mention
that the versions of UFS they have are probably slightly incompatible.

>Does anyone have any suggestions?  Are there any filesystems
>that will work on both (all?) platforms?

Probably a MS-DOS filesystem would work on both platforms.

-Kurt
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