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From: richard@cogsci.ed.ac.uk (Richard Tobin)
Subject: Re: Q:Sharing Jaz cartridges between FreeBSD and Solaris
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In article <5pgovh$e9o@uriah.heep.sax.de> joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) writes:

>He's most likely right.  While Solaris uses basically the same UFS
>(4.2BSD file system) FreeBSD uses too, they've made their version
>incompatible enough so you can't mutually mount the file systems.

And UFS uses native byte order, which is different between *86 and
Sparc.

-- Richard
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