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- From: bob@allan.sublink.org (Lanfranco Albani)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Problems with Transferring Sun -> Coherent via floppy disk
- Message-ID: <236206@allan.sublink.org>
- Date: 25 Jul 92 22:49:08 GMT
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- Organization: Allan: where felines dance
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- decemj@vccnortha.its.rpi.edu (John Arthur December) writes:
- > I have successfully done this on Coherent:
- > Coh$ tar cvf /dev/fva0 DIRECTORY
- > Then I can read from this disk on the Sun just fine:
- > Sun$ /usr/5bin/ustar -xvf /dev/rfd0c
- >
- > However, my problem is going from the Sun to Coherent.
- > Sun$ /usr/5bin/ustar -cvf /dev/rfd0c DIRECTORY
- > But then this is where I have problems:
- > Coh$ tar xvf /dev/fva0 DIRECTORY
-
- It sounds as Sun's ustar can read the old Coherent's tar format, but the
- reverse is false.
-
- Have you tried with the Coherent's ustar?
-
-
- Bye, Lanfranco
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