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- From: bohus@math.rutgers.edu (Geza Bohus)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps
- Subject: Re: Mac disk on a SparcStation: a simpler method
- Message-ID: <Jan.26.14.43.33.1993.2653@math.rutgers.edu>
- Date: 26 Jan 93 19:43:33 GMT
- References: <1993Jan25.213007.23006@hou.amoco.com>
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- I already answered the original question by email, but it seems that
- several people missed a very simple solution: tar. A small and free
- utility on the Mac can read/write disks in tar format. You need a high
- density disk formatted on the Mac and that's it. On the Unix you type
-
- tar cvf /dev/fd0a file.names.here
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- to create an archive and
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- tar xvf /dev/fd0a
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- to extract it. If you're using this frequently, you can also say
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- setenv TAPE /dev/fd0a
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- in your .login file, and forget the f and /dev/fd0a above, so you'll
- have
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- tar cv filenames
-
- and
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- tar xv
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- Oh, yes: tar for the Mac is on the archives, e.g. at umich it's
- util/compression/tar3.0.sit.hqx.
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- Hope this helps. It is slightly simpler than going through DOS disks.
-
- g
-