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- From: udo@umunk.GUN.de (Udo Munk)
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- Subject: Re: Problems with Transferring Sun -> Coherent via floppy disk
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- Date: Fri, 24 Jul 92 13:15:36 +0100
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- decemj@vccnortha.its.rpi.edu (John Arthur December) writes:
- : Hello
- :
- : I am having a problem transferring files from a Sun Sparcstation to
- : Coherent via a floppy disk.
- [...]
- : But then this is where I have problems:
- :
- : Coh$ tar xvf /dev/fva0 DIRECTORY
- :
- : It gives me many messages (back checksum), junk to the screen.
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- Also use ustar under Coherent, which is part of the pax package.
- Under Coherent 4.0 tar is ustar and the old V7 tar may be called
- with v7tar.
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