I'm wondering whether anyone out there has a compiled version of mdir and
mcopy which will read NTFS file systems?
I have SCO UNIX Open Server 5.0.6 on the second partition of my (now) Win
XP first drive. When I upgraded to Windows XP I went whole hog and
converted from FAT32 to NTFS on all drives and partitions. Dumb,
and it's not an easily reversible process. Shame on me for not
thinking ahead on that issue.
The old versions of these utilities, built for Linux, ran just fine on
UNIX but they don't recognize the file system. UNIX sees it as OS2
when I am running fdisk under UNIX to change the boot
partition.
I can, at least, boot into Windows without running fdisk by
entering:
bootos 4
at the boot: prompt. Just as a matter of interest, the Windows
multi-boot program ONLY accepts other Microsoft products in it's
script. Funny thing about that.
My problem is a little urgent in that I have to pick up some rather large
files from another UNIX system, move them to a Windows partition, and
send them to a distant site using an Internet utility. With any
luck I should be able to collect the files some time this week, but
moving them from UNIX to Windows presents a little problem, because even
after being compressed (using the UNIX zip program) they are still larger
than what I can move on a floppy diskette. I hope to avoid having
to pass the information through a connection to my Laptop and then moving
that data to the main PC.
An alternative, I guess, would be to find a CD burner software for UNIX
which will handle my HP CD-Writer Plus, 9210i. That CD and my
read-only CD can both be mounted from UNIX, but I can only read files,
not write them.
Sincerely,
Don Williams
Sometimes I lie awake at night, and I ask,
"Why Me?"
Then a voice answers, "Nothing
Personal. Your name
just happened to come up."