cruller@unicom.net wrote:
> Here is how I do it. Say I have a file on the macos side I want to get
> into netbsd. The file is called 'Xproggy.tar.gz'  It is on a drive which
> is named HD500 and in a folder on that drive called Xprograms.  I want
> to copy it into /home/cruller on my netbsd partition.  Here is what I do
> from the minishell of the installer.
> 
> cpin "HD500:Xprograms:Xproggy.tar.gz" /home/cruller/Xproggy.tar.gz
> 
> Note that I put quotes around the macos path and : (colons) for path
> subdirectory(read folder) markers, but on the netbsd side quotes are
> _NOT_ required and the subdirectory marker is a / (slash).
> 
> I have a Zip drive that I DL files onto in the MacOS.  I named the drive
> D  and a folder  X to save a few keystokes when typing this stuff into
> the minishell.   I also copy the file name right from the finder & past
> it into the minishell at the apropriate spot.  This serves me two ways:
> 1) I don't have to type it . 2) it eliminates errors because of criptic
> file names e.g.: (Xlockmore-0.5.1-bin12.tar.gz) Is that a 0 or a O???;
> so here is what I get:
> 
> cpin "D:X:Xproggy.tar.gz" /home/cruller/Xproggy.tar.gz
> 
> It would be great if I could find something that copies the whole path
> in the MacOS so I could save even more keystokes. :)

Another thing that either of you might try is downloading and compiling
the HFS utilities.  If you also have Tcl/Tk and compile the xhfs browser,
you can select the files you want from a list and copy them in under
NetBSD (which I think is faster than using the Installer).

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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