[svlug] sneaker net from Mac to Linux possible?

[Deirdre Saoirse]

On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Ken Blake wrote:

> My wife is doing some work at a place with Macs.  They have some older
> Macs so I think they'll have some with 3.5" floppy drives.  If so,
> then will it be possible to transfer files between a Mac and a pc
> running linux on a diskette?

Have you thought of using netatalk?

http://freshmeat.net/projects/netatalk/

Also, low volume, it's possible to stuff all the files together in an
archive and use scp (included with NiftyTelnet with SSH).

http://www.lysator.liu.se/~jonasw/freeware/niftyssh/

This assumes that there's a network connecting the Mac and Linux boxes.
There are Mac implementations of tar, gzip and zip.

> I seem to recall that Macs had some completely different method of
> reading/writing to floppies.  Even if they've changed their ways and
> decided to conform, I assume they still would have a different file
> system. Can they read from a msdos fs?  Can linux read from a Mac fs?
> Is there any hope and if so how would it work?

Macs can read/write MS-DOS floppies (depending on the system software
version, this may or may not be an add-on) and so can Linux, so that seems
the best option.

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