EXCHANGING OPTICAL DISKS : DOS to UNIX / UNIX to DOS

by Paul Ah » Mon, 30 Jan 1995 04:32:37

I will be generating a lot of TIF files on a PC based system.
Those files have to get stored on an optical disk that should
be readable by an SGI workstation (UNIX).

Therefore, I need a utility/driver to allow me one of the
following:

a) allow DOS to write on a UNIX partition.

b) allow UNIX to read a DOS partition

Thanks!
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1. Communications - Unix to Unix vs Unix to DOS

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Subject: Communication - Unix to Unix vs Unix to DOS
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Forgive me if this is a duplicate posting from June 4, but I never saw my
posting appear.

I'm new to posting news as well as being a novice in the area of
communications, so please have patience with any blunders I may make in either
area.

I am trying to make a decision for a system I am developing as to whether I
should send a data file from my host Unix system to a Unix workstation or to a
DOS workstation. Since one of the customer's requirements is to have
unattended operations at the receiving site, I would use UUCP for the
Unix-Unix version. But I don't know what to use on the Unix-DOS version
without having to write my own TSR program. (Note: the receiver will not be
on Internet or the Win network, so the systems will communicate via dial-up
modems.) I have several questions for you:

1) I have heard that some software called UUPC (not UUCP, but UUPC) will allow
me to transmit a data file from Unix to DOS using UUCP. If this is true, will
this software support unattended operations as I can have with Unix-Unix?

2) If UUPC does allow the unattended operations, does anyone know how I can
obtain this software?

3) Can anyone tell me whether there are performance issues and/or data
intetgrity problems with either Unix-Unix or Unix-DOS? I have been told that
using UUCP for the Unix-Unix transfer and using Procomm Plus Kermit or Zmodem
for the Unix-DOS transfer shows no differnece in performance or data
integrity. (And what if I use UUPC for Unix-DOS?)

Any other comments will be appreciated, as long as they're relatively polite.
Thanks in advance for your help.

Sandie
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