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From: mkl@rob.cs.tu-bs.de (Mario Klebsch DG1AM)
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: 3 Jan 96 10:35:45 GMT
Organization: TU Braunschweig, Informatik (Bueltenweg), Germany
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lidl@va.pubnix.com (Kurt J. Lidl) writes:

>Thomas Naughton <naughton@htc.com> wrote:
>>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.

hsfs is used on CDROMs and can be read on all platforms. I don't
know, wether the hsfs filesystems of Solaris or BSDI do support
writing. Have you ever tried to mount a hard disk copy of a CDROM rw?

73, Mario
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Mario Klebsch, DG1AM, M.Klebsch@tu-bs.de		+49 531 / 391 - 7457
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