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From: Andy Pippin <abp@axil.com>
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: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 15:28:13 -0800
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Yusuf Wilajati Purna wrote:
->
->
-> I had a similar problem too when I wanted to move/copy files from
Linux to
-> FreeBSD, Linux to Solaris 2.4 x86, FreeBSD to Solaris, or vice versa.
When
-> doing that I always blamed "They are UNIX why they can't mount each
other."
-> Yeah...I know there some people doing something outside there to make
it go.
-> But the progress is rather slow. In that kind of situation, my good
friend is
-> only the DOS filesystem. Yeah...they can mount DOS. What I did was
-> keep the name of the file I wanted to copy not more than eight
characters
-> and move it to the DOS. Solaris can mount a DOS filesystem by set the
type to
-> 'pcfs' while BSDI can mount it by set the type to 'msdos'(???).
Does the High Sierra File System support read/write filesystems
or just read-only. I would imagine that using HSFS w/ Rock
Ridge extensions might be a good solution...
aBp.