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- From: lauther@ztivax.zfe.siemens.de (Dr Ulrich Lauther)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.coherent
- Subject: Re: Copying files to floppy disks
- Message-ID: <9208270752.AA10333@zfe.siemens.de>
- Date: 27 Aug 92 09:13:16 GMT
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- Sender: daemon@presto.ig.com
- Reply-To: "Coherent operating system" <COHERENT@indycms.bitnet>
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- In article <01GNV2FPK56A8ZE6H1@delphi.com> you write:
- >What could I possibly be doing wrong when copying files to floppies?
- >For example, I downloaded screen.tar.Z, nn.tar.Z, and several other files
- >from mwcbbs today while at work. I noticed that screen.tar.Z was about
- >500K and nn.tar.Z was about 570K after concatenating all of the pieces
- >together. Yet after I get home, I find that screen.tar.Z is 400K and
- >nn.tar.Z is 440K on the floppy and the files are definitely incomplete.
- >Here's how I did the batch today at work:
- >
- > cat screen.tar.Za? >screen.tar.Z
- > fdformat /dev/fqa0
- > mkfs /dev/fqa0 1440
- > mount /dev/fqa0 /f0
- > cp screen.tar.Z /f0
- > umount /dev/fqa0
- >
- Why don't you just use
- > cat screen.tar.Za? >screen.tar.Z
- > fdformat /dev/fqa0
- echo screen.tar.c | cpio -ovcB > /dev/fqa0
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