Subject: Re: working around the lack of transfer options
To: Larson, Timothy E. <Larson.Timothy1@mayo.edu>
From: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/25/2002 13:40:43
On Fri, 25 Oct 2002, Larson, Timothy E. wrote:

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> I used Cameron Kaiser's suggestion (cpin) and after a few tries
> managed to figure out the proper syntax.  :)  As long as there is
> enough space on the MacOS part for the file, you can launch the
> Installer, run the Mini-Shell, and enter "cpin
> :someFileAtMacRootLevel /someFileAtBSDRootLevel".  (Colon is
> analogous to a slash in HFS.)  I couldn't find any documentation
> on cpin/cpout, but I didn't spend a lot of time looking either.

If you put the file to copy into the same folder as the Installer,
you don't any colons, but "hfsutils", from the NetBSD side, is even
nicer. (You have "cd", "ls" and such.)

Frederick