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- From: najem@dante.cs.uiuc.edu (Ziad Najem)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
- Subject: Re: Clue?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep3.003401.15081@m.cs.uiuc.edu>
- Date: 3 Sep 92 00:34:01 GMT
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- David Reeve Sward <dsa3+@andrew.cmu.edu> writes:
-
- >Psst! Buddy, can you spare a clue?
-
- >A couple Linux-newbie(tm) questions:
-
- >2) Just how do you move stuff from DOS to Linux via rawrite -> tar? I
- >grabbed tcsh.tar.Z from tsx, uncompressed it in DOS, rawrote it to a
- >floppy, fired up Linux (thanks BootLinux & Boot.Sys!) and ran
-
- No need to uncompress it in DOS, you can use compress, zcat or GNU tar
- can do it.
-
- >tar -tvf /dev/fd0H1440
-
- >It spat out the verbose file listing as (I assumed) it put the files on
- >the HD. But! There were no additional files on the HD. df reported no
- >used/free changes. What am I doing wrong here?
-
- the -t is to get the file listing and this is exactly what it did. use
- -x to extract the files. So you can use,
-
- $ tar -xvf /dev/fd0H1440
-
- or if the archive is still compressed and you're using GNU tar, use:
-
- $ tar -xzvf /dev/fd0H1440
-
- Also, since linux now has autodetecting disk type, you can simply use:
-
- $ tar -xzvf /def/fd0
-
-
- >[ok, maybe not just a couple of questions]
-
- >3) Is there a Common Lisp implementation for Linux?
-
- Yes there is, it is in beta testing and you can get it from the
- author whom I forgot his name but is recorded in the project registry
- list that gets posted periodicaly to this news goup.
-
- >4) mtools. Where can I find docs for mtools? (DOS is on C, Linux is on
- >D with 3 partitions - 18M /, 63M /usr & 10M swap).
-
- I got mine from the MCC distribution (0.95).
-
- >Thanks!
-
-
- - Ziad
- najem@cs.uiuc.edu
-