From owner-freebsd-questions Fri May 3 16:24:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id QAA19936 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 3 May 1996 16:24:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from fly.HiWAAY.net (root@fly.HiWAAY.net [204.214.4.2]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA19921 for ; Fri, 3 May 1996 16:24:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from max3-196.HiWAAY.net by fly.HiWAAY.net; (5.65v3.0/1.1.8.2/21Sep95-1003PM) id AA05463; Fri, 3 May 1996 18:23:29 -0500 Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Fri, 3 May 1996 18:24:08 -0500 To: Eric Jones , questions@freebsd.org From: dkelly@hiwaay.net (David Kelly) Subject: Re: BSD to Irix Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk At 11:20 AM 5/3/96, Eric Jones wrote: >I'm a graphic artist and seriously discontent with the kind of performance >I get out of my PC. I've considered using BSD, but my biggest question is >compatability and being able to get my files output to common things like >an imagesetter, etc. If I install BSD to my system, do I have to find a >service bureau with a system with BSD as well, or can other >DOS/Windows/SGI systems read my disks? Assuming you have a graphics utility that runs under FreeBSD that reads/writes a format usable by the other machines then you will have no trouble moving floppy media between those systems. You could write your files in MS-DOS format on the floppy(s). You could write your files in TAR format on the floppies. Tar works for almost anything, even Macintosh (look for a Mac utility called "suntar", the "sun" in "suntar" doesn't have anything to do with Sun Microsystems). Modern Mac's ship with MS-DOS filesystem "drivers" so that solution works too. For big stuff its best to get a 4mm DAT or real (not PC) QIC tape drive and use tar. But best of all, wire an ethernet between the systems and shoot the data across that way. Originally I downloaded FreeBSD over LocalTalk to a Mac, wrote the boot floppies from the Mac (rawrite.exe works under SoftPC if you disable Apple's DOS floppy driver). Then I made a bunch of MS-DOS floppies... Ouch. -- David Kelly N4HHE, n4hhe@amsat.org, dkelly@hiwaay.net ============================================================= To invent, you need a good imagination and a pile of junk. - Thomas Edison