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- From: cdl@chiton.ucsd.edu (Carl Lowenstein)
- Subject: Re: how to read a (ie: 'tar') floppy?!?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.153316.3481@chiton.ucsd.edu>
- Organization: Marine Physical Lab, UC San Diego
- References: <1id1irINNmr8@anthrax.solbourne.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 15:33:16 GMT
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- In article <1id1irINNmr8@anthrax.solbourne.com> hanzel@solbourne.com (Karl Hanzel) writes:
- >
- >What's the secret to being able to stuff (just for example) a 'tar' floppy
- >into a NeXT's drive and then to read it? The scenario is this: i'm here
- >at work, and i write off a 'tar' floppy on a machine here. I go home and plug
- >it in my NeXT, only to be prompted "Floppy unreadable: initialize or eject?:"
- >by a dialog window. It expects that any floppy you stick in it is supposed to
- >be a mountable file system... that's what it will do to it if you select the
- >"initialize" option. I need an "ignore" option that will just let it sit
- >there in the drive until i later go to read it with 'tar'.
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- Don't insert the floppy until the OS asks for it. i.e. give the command
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- % tar xvf /dev/rfd0a
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- and wait for the prompt panel to come up and ask you to insert a disk.
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- This should probably be in the FAQ list, but I don't think it is.
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