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From: papke@dicomed.UUCP (Kurt Papke)
Newsgroups: net.micro.pc
Subject: Re: xenix doscp cmd
Message-ID: <606@dicomed.UUCP>
Date: Wed, 18-Sep-85 08:31:56 EDT
Article-I.D.: dicomed.606
Posted: Wed Sep 18 08:31:56 1985
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References: <21900080@uiucuxc> <235@omen.UUCP>
Reply-To: papke@dicomed.UUCP (Kurt Papke)
Organization: DICOMED Corp., Minneapolis
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Summary: /dev protection problems

In article <235@omen.UUCP> caf@omen.UUCP (Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX) writes:
>In article <21900080@uiucuxc> koenker@uiucuxc.Uiuc.ARPA writes:
>>
>>Has anyone out there successfully used the xenix command doscp
>>to copy xenix files to a dos diskette?  Is there something magical,
>>or is this a feature without function, or am I just having a long
>>string of bad luck trying various options.
>
>The doscp program works as advertised, except that (on the IBM version)
>the DOS files must be specified IN UPPER CASE (the manual is wrong.)
                                 ^^^^^^^^^^^^^
Not necessarily.  DOS actually does allow upper/lower case file names,
but "dir" displays everything in upper case.  The editor I use (wordvision)
does allow you to create file names with lower case, and Xenix reads them
fine.

>Note that the Xenix format command won't do, you must format the disks
>under DOS.  And, the filenames must be legal for DOS; .mailrc and
>foo.bar.baz fail.  Here are some lines from a Makefile:
> (makefile stuff)
> 
>
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His problem may also be the protection on the "/dev/fd*" files.  After
my Xenix was installed Xenix would let me read from the flops, but not
write.  Checking the protection mask found that these files were read-only
for non-system access.  "chmoding" them to 666 solved the problem.

	Kurt

"Old engineers don't die, they just become programmers"