Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!husc6!hscfvax!mohamed From: mohamed@hscfvax.harvard.edu (Mohamed Ellozy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.questions Subject: Copying directory trees from U*NX to DOS Keywords: ftp tar shar Message-ID: <591@hscfvax.harvard.edu> Date: 14 Jul 88 20:52:51 GMT Organization: Health Sciences Computing Facility, Harvard University Lines: 19 When our users close accounts they often want a backup of their stuff. No problem, tar it off and sell them the tape. We are now, for better or for worse, in the age of the PC. Hence many of our users are asking us to back up their accounts to diskettes (DOS only so far). We have a PC clone on our Ethernet, so the actual physical transfer of files is no problem. But what is the best way to get large parts of the directory tree down? Also, how do you deal with filenames on U*NX which will map to the same name on DOS, e. g. longname1.data and longname2.data will both give longname.dat. Also how do you deal with non-ascii files? Surely there are places where this is done on a routine basis. I would like to hear both suggestions based on thinking and actual experience. The latter would be especially welcome. mohamed