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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.rmit.EDU.AU!news.unimelb.EDU.AU!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.cis.okstate.edu!news.ksu.ksu.edu!news.physics.uiowa.edu!math.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!swrinde!newsfeed.internetmci.com!in2.uu.net!news.iij.ad.jp!wnoc-tyo-news!dclsic!yilnws!hamamatsu-pc!hamamatsu.tcp-net!news.tcp-net.ad.jp!niq0!nfeed.gw.nagoya-u.ac.jp!news.ipch.shizuoka.ac.jp!news!purna From: purna@cs.shizuoka.ac.jp (Yusuf Wilajati Purna) 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: 5 Jan 96 18:08:38 Organization: Shizuoka University, Hamamatsu, Japan. Lines: 31 Distribution: inet Message-ID: <PURNA.96Jan5180838@rhinoceros.cs.shizuoka.ac.jp> References: <4cb9aq$9d5@gilligan.htc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: rhinoceros.cs.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp In-reply-to: naughton@htc.com's message of 2 Jan 1996 06:44:10 -0600 Xref: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au comp.unix.admin:36617 comp.sys.sun.hardware:31027 comp.unix.solaris:55732 comp.sys.sun.admin:59630 comp.unix.bsd.bsdi.misc:1846 On 2 Jan 1996 06:44:10 -0600, Thomas Naughton (naughton@htc.com) wrote: > ... > At work I have a Sun workstation running Solaris 2.5 and > at home I have an Intel PC running BSDI 2.0. .... > ... > ... 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. > ... > ... Does anyone have any suggestions? Are there any filesystems that > will work on both (all?) platforms? > ... 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'(???). Hope it can help. Regards, Yusuf Wilajati Purna (purna@cs.inf.shizuoka.ac.jp)