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- From: malexand@aludra.usc.edu (Michael Alexander)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Reading Tar floppies on a NeXT
- Date: 8 Sep 1992 00:02:11 -0700
- Organization: University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
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- jgshir@athena.mit.edu (John G Shirlaw) writes:
-
- >I have a floppy I formated on a RS6000 and then wrote a TAR archive on to it.
-
- >How do I recover this info on to my NeXT?
-
- >I know the NeXT has TAR but for starters how do I get the floppy in without the
- >NeXT formating it as it seams to want to?
-
- >thanks in advance
-
- >john shirlaw.
-
- Since you most likely used >format< on the rs/6k, the next would not be able to
- read the disk. Use dosformat instead, writing out the tar-file with >doswrite<
- (slow.) Another possibility would be to tar at the 6k onto the raw fd device
- while reading it on the next with >tar -xvf /dev/rfd0a < (untested). However,
- rcp, ftp, tftp, ... between the 6k and the next would be nicer.
-
- Cheers,
-
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