sco 505 - create windoze exe file that will create a unix disk

[Enrique Arredondo]

Hi,

I wonder if this is possible, I want to put some files on a floppy disk from
my SCO unix box, then I want that disk to be converted to a file so that if
somebody gets that file on their outhouse express (windows OS) can double
click on it and it will ask them to insert a blank floppy and it will create
a UNIX disk with the files I had on it originally, that way my remote
customer just puts that floppy on their SCO box and can read the
information.

Note : the remote SCO box is stand alone PC. no modem, no internet, just a
floppy drive.

Thanks

[Enrique Arredondo]

"Jean-Pierre Radley" <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message
news:20030701213032.GI1091@jpradley.jpr.com...

> Enrique Arredondo typed (on Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:03:07PM +0000):
> | Hi,
> |
> | I wonder if this is possible, I want to put some files on a floppy disk

from

> | my SCO unix box, then I want that disk to be converted to a file so that

if

> | somebody gets that file on their outhouse express (windows OS) can

double

> | click on it and it will ask them to insert a blank floppy and it will

create

> | a UNIX disk with the files I had on it originally, that way my remote
> | customer just puts that floppy on their SCO box and can read the
> | information.
> |
> | Note : the remote SCO box is stand alone PC. no modem, no internet,

just a

> | floppy drive.
>
> Format the floppy, mount it, copy whatever you want to the floppy.
> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=disk.image bs=36k
> Use mutt to send disk.image as an attachement.
>
> On Windows, use rawrite to write disk.image to a floppy.
> You can get it from tls096.zip, or from the installation CDROM of current
> OSR 5.0.x release, where it's got a different name, images/floppycp.exe
>

Thanks JP for your solution.

I tried the following :

dd if=tagcer.zip of=image obs=36k ; uuencode image image | mail
[email]henry@xxx.com[/email] (I'm reading the file directly from the UNIX hard drive so
the bs=36k becomes obs=36k rigth ?

then at the remote location I executed:

c:\>floppycp /d a /f image

Input file = 20467, Floppy = 1474560

Copy Complete.

But when I try to read the floppy on the remote unix box with the following
command :

tar xvf /dev/rfd0135ds18

it fails :
tar: blocksize = 20
tar: directory checksum error

Do I need to have that floppy formated as UNIX before running the floppycp
command ? Or will it automatically take care of all those tasks for me ?

Enrique

[Jean-Pierre Radley]

Enrique Arredondo typed (on Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 10:52:20PM +0000):

| "Jean-Pierre Radley" <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message
| news:20030701213032.GI1091@jpradley.jpr.com...
|
| > Enrique Arredondo typed (on Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:03:07PM +0000):
| >
| > | I wonder if this is possible, I want to put some files on a floppy
| > | disk from my SCO unix box, then I want that disk to be converted
| > | to a file so that if somebody gets that file on their outhouse
| > | express (windows OS) can double click on it and it will ask them
| > | to insert a blank floppy and it will create a UNIX disk with the
| > | files I had on it originally, that way my remote customer just
| > | puts that floppy on their SCO box and can read the information.
| > |
| > | Note : the remote SCO box is stand alone PC. no modem, no
| > | internet, just a floppy drive.
| >
| > Format the floppy, mount it, copy whatever you want to the floppy.
| > dd if=/dev/fd0 of=disk.image bs=36k Use mutt to send disk.image as
| > an attachement.
| >
| > On Windows, use rawrite to write disk.image to a floppy. You
| > can get it from tls096.zip, or from the installation CDROM of
| > current OSR 5.0.x release, where it's got a different name,
| > images/floppycp.exe
|
|
| Thanks JP for your solution.
|
| I tried the following :
|
| dd if=tagcer.zip of=image obs=36k ; uuencode image image | mail
| [email]henry@xxx.com[/email] (I'm reading the file directly from the UNIX hard drive
| so the bs=36k becomes obs=36k rigth ?

tagcer.zip? Why is zip invloved?

If I said bs, why do you want to change it to obs?

| then at the remote location I executed:
|
| c:\>floppycp /d a /f image
|
| Input file = 20467, Floppy = 1474560
|
| Copy Complete.
|
| But when I try to read the floppy on the remote unix box with the
| following command :
|
| tar xvf /dev/rfd0135ds18
|
| it fails : tar: blocksize = 20 tar: directory checksum error

But are you trying to un-tar a zip file??

| Do I need to have that floppy formated as UNIX before running the
| floppycp command ? Or will it automatically take care of all those
| tasks for me ?

Floopycp just moves bytes, as do rawrite and dd.

You're complicating things which were simple.

Mail me one of your images, if you wish.

--
JP

[Bill Vermillion]

In article <EgoMa.384$S11.206@newssvr16.news.prodigy.com>,
Enrique Arredondo <atk@sbcglobal.net> wrote:

>
>"Jean-Pierre Radley" <jpr@jpr.com> wrote in message
>news:20030701213032.GI1091@jpradley.jpr.com...

>> Enrique Arredondo typed (on Tue, Jul 01, 2003 at 09:03:07PM +0000):
>> | Hi,
>> |
>> | I wonder if this is possible, I want to put some files on a floppy disk

>from

>> | my SCO unix box, then I want that disk to be converted to a file so that

>if

>> | somebody gets that file on their outhouse express (windows OS) can

>double

>> | click on it and it will ask them to insert a blank floppy and it will

>create

>> | a UNIX disk with the files I had on it originally, that way my remote
>> | customer just puts that floppy on their SCO box and can read the
>> | information.
>> |
>> | Note : the remote SCO box is stand alone PC. no modem, no internet,

>just a

>> | floppy drive.
>>
>> Format the floppy, mount it, copy whatever you want to the floppy.
>> dd if=/dev/fd0 of=disk.image bs=36k
>> Use mutt to send disk.image as an attachement.
>>
>> On Windows, use rawrite to write disk.image to a floppy.
>> You can get it from tls096.zip, or from the installation CDROM of current
>> OSR 5.0.x release, where it's got a different name, images/floppycp.exe

>Thanks JP for your solution.

>I tried the following :

>dd if=tagcer.zip of=image obs=36k ; uuencode image image | mail
>henry@xxx.com (I'm reading the file directly from the UNIX hard
>drive so the bs=36k becomes obs=36k rigth ?

>then at the remote location I executed:

>c:\>floppycp /d a /f image

> Input file = 20467, Floppy = 1474560

> Copy Complete.

>But when I try to read the floppy on the remote unix box with
>the following command :

>tar xvf /dev/rfd0135ds18

>it fails :
>tar: blocksize = 20
>tar: directory checksum error

>Do I need to have that floppy formated as UNIX before running
>the floppycp command ? Or will it automatically take care of all
>those tasks for me ?

It looks like you are getting program confused here.

JP said format the floppy, and then mount it and copy the file to
the floppy. That floppy is Unix filesystem type disk.

But you show you are taking a *.zip file and making a dd image of
that file and sending it along. You really should use 'mutt' for
attachments - as it is so much easier.

But then you are using a tar command to try to extract the image
you built and nowhere do I see that used used tar to put the file
to the disk.

I'd personally opt for taring the file to disk - and not copying to
a file system.

Then you make an image of that tar floppy with

dd if=<nameoffoppydevice> of=image bs=36k.

Then you encode that or send it as a mutt attachment.

The the far side make a floppy of that attachemnt and then you use
tar.

Or using JPs method once you mount the floppy and copy the files to
that floppy, make the image, transfer the image, write the image to
floppy, and then >mount< the floppy on the far Unix system and
copy the file from the floppy.

I prefer tar as there is one less step on each Unix system.

Bill
--
Bill Vermillion - bv @ wjv . com