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From: consp03@bingsuns.cc.binghamton.edu (Kriston J. Rehberg)
Subject: Re: Sparc floppies
Message-ID: <1991Jun28.184838.11020@newserve.cc.binghamton.edu>
Keywords: Amiga, MSDOS, Sparc
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Date: Fri, 28 Jun 1991 18:48:38 GMT

In article <1991Jun28.154937.13973@javelin.sim.es.com>,
dingebre@imp.es.com (David Ingebretsen) writes:
|>We have mtools installed on a couple of our Suns but it doesn't seem to write
|>binary files properly. I can write a binary file, then read it, and a
UNIX diff shows that it has changed. Text files don't have a problem.
|>
|>If anyone can explain how to get mtools to properly write a binary file,
|>I would really appreciate it.

Ask your admin if they compiled it with the 'textfile' option on - the
mtools suite has the ability to translate CR's to CR/LF's that MSDOS
needs to view textfiles properly.

The option is -t on our version to turn ON the conversion, so you may be
able to turn it off using -t.

Good luck,

|>David
                                    

-Kris

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