Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 6/24/83; site dicomed.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!mhuxn!ihnp4!stolaf!umn-cs!mmm!rosevax!dicomed!papke 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 Date-Received: Fri, 20-Sep-85 06:43:40 EDT References: <21900080@uiucuxc> <235@omen.UUCP> Reply-To: papke@dicomed.UUCP (Kurt Papke) Organization: DICOMED Corp., Minneapolis Lines: 36 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) > > >Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX ...!tektronix!reed!omen!caf CIS:70715,131 >Omen Technology Inc 17505-V NW Sauvie Island Road Portland OR 97231 >Home of Professional-YAM, the most powerful COMM program for the IBM PC >Voice: 503-621-3406 Modem: 503-621-3746 (Hit CR's for speed detect) >omen Any ACU 1200 1-503-621-3746 se:--se: link ord: Giznoid in:--in: uucp 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"