Transferring ACT file in QNX ???

QNX Newsgroups (Archives) comp.os.qnx
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Anyone know how this could be done? ACT is a contact management system and
I need to get the data into the QNX file system somehow. I understand that
the QNX file system is proprietary - anyone done this sort of thing before?

D. Bruce Moore

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“D. Bruce Moore” <bmoore@rdiglobal.com> writes:

Anyone know how this could be done? ACT is a contact management system and
I need to get the data into the QNX file system somehow. I understand that
the QNX file system is proprietary - anyone done this sort of thing before?

D. Bruce Moore

[assuming QNX6]
You have a couple of choices:

  1. if the windows partition and the QNX partition are on the same
    machine, then the windows partition is automatically mounted on
    /fs/hd0-dos (or something similar). Just copy it.

  2. if the systems are on different machines, try FTP via the network
    or a DOS-formatted floppy disk. You can mount the DOS floppy with:

mount -t dos /dev/fd0 /a

and then access the floppy contents as /a/whatever

Andrew Thomas, President, Cogent Real-Time Systems Inc.
2430 Meadowpine Boulevard, Suite 105, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada L5N 6S2
Email: andrew@cogent.ca WWW: http://www.cogent.ca

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I assume you don’t have a QNX machine handy.
You might be able to tar to a diskette, or use cpio.
The QNX machine that will get the data can read DOS
formatted diskettes.

Previously, D. Bruce Moore wrote in comp.os.qnx:

Anyone know how this could be done? ACT is a contact management system and
I need to get the data into the QNX file system somehow. I understand that
the QNX file system is proprietary - anyone done this sort of thing before?

D. Bruce Moore
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