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- From: vhs@rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Subject: Re: how to read a (ie:'tar') floppy?!?
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.211115.10917@qb.rhein-main.de>
- Sender: vhs@qb.rhein-main.de (Volker Herminghaus-Shirai)
- Reply-To: vhs@rhein-main.de
- References: <1id1irINNmr8@anthrax.solbourne.com>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 21:11:15 GMT
- Lines: 22
-
- In article <1id1irINNmr8@anthrax.solbourne.com> hanzel@solbourne.com (Karl
- Hanzel) writes:
- > Ok, i give up...
- >
- > 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.
-
- Simple. Issue the tar command first, before inserting the disk. You will
- be prompted to insert the disk.
-
- --
- Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@qb.rhein-main.de), NeXTmail welcome
-
- Looks good on the outside, but -
- intel inside
-