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  1. Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
  2. Path: sparky!uunet!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!sdd.hp.com!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!news.claremont.edu!fenris!jwinstea
  3. From: jwinstea@fenris.claremont.edu (Jim Winstead Jr.)
  4. Subject: Re: transfering mtools from DOS partition to LINUX fs
  5. Message-ID: <1992Sep3.205955.20790@muddcs.claremont.edu>
  6. Sender: news@muddcs.claremont.edu (The News System)
  7. Organization: Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
  8. Date: Thu, 3 Sep 1992 20:59:55 GMT
  9. Lines: 22
  10.  
  11. In article <1992Sep03.173830.20648@microsoft.com> t-piersh@microsoft.com (Piers Haken) writes:
  12. >
  13. >What you can do is this.
  14. >
  15. >  ln /dev/fd1 /dev/fd1.Z
  16. >Which will create a device suitable for use with zcat...
  17. >then 
  18. >
  19. >  zcat /dev/fd1.Z | tar -xvf -
  20. >will uncompress the floppy and feed it through tar, extracting as it goes.
  21.  
  22. That's really silly.  Do this:
  23.  
  24.     zcat < /dev/fd1 | pax -r -v
  25.             (or tar xvf - if you want)
  26.  
  27. You don't need the little link if you do it that way.
  28. -- 
  29.                                     +      Jim Winstead Jr. (CSci '95)
  30.                                     |      Harvey Mudd College, WIBSTR
  31.                                     |   jwinstea@jarthur.Claremont.EDU
  32.                                     + or jwinstea@fenris.Claremont.EDU
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