I have a group of Unix commands ported to work with Win95. There are 43
commands like tar, ls, chmod, cat, etc. The group is 700Mb zipped. Let
me know if anyone is interested.
--- Regards, Dan Davis PROTON Rapid Prototyping Center Hicom Industrial Estate Batu Tiga, PO Box 7100 Shah Alam, 40918 Selangor MALAYSIA +60 3 515-2380 phone/fax> -----Original Message----- > From: Andrzejewski, Jan [SMTP:jan_andrzejewski@peragroup.com] > Sent: Saturday, August 08, 1998 1:06 AM > To: rpml > Subject: unix to dos > > > Shreyas J Bakshi wants software that can convert UNIX data to DOS/WIN > from > floppies, DAT or CD ? > > Not knowing the full problems that Shreyas J Bakshi is having I can > only > suggest the following: > > Unix ASCII files ( eg STL or IGS ) can be converted into DOS ASCII > files ( > removal of control characters ) by using > > to_dos Unix command and the floptical drive that comes with > most > Silicon Graphics > > also writes to 3.5 floppies IBM format. > > If the file size is larger than 1.44 Mb use the unix command > 'compress' > which then puts a .Z at > the end of the file. > > Rename the file (eg test.stl.Z to test.stz ) then copy to the > 3.5 > floppy ( only if the compressed file is still less than 1.44 Mb ) > > At the DOS end use an executable file called gzip.exe to uncompress > the unix > compressed file. > > If you want the gzip.exe file let me know. > > For files that are larger than the capacity of a floppy use a > recordable CD > and the files are just copied onto the CD and should be easily read by > a PC > CDrom. > > If a tape cartridge is sent from a Unix machine it will most probably > be in > TAR format, if this is the case then there is a piece of software > called > MKtoolkit which allows unix commands to be typed in such as TAR , DD , > CPIO > that deal with media transfers and allows other unix commands also. > > If these do not cover you specific problems please let me know and I > shall > try to help further > > Jan Andrzejewski > RP Operations Manager > Pera > > For more information about the rp-ml, see http://ltk.hut.fi/rp-ml/
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