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- Path: sparky!uunet!vtserf!rri!tim
- From: tim@rri.UUCP (Tim Buck)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.next.misc
- Subject: Re: Reading Tar floppies on a NeXT
- Message-ID: <537@rri.UUCP>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 14:00:15 GMT
- References: <1992Sep8.044943.2984@athena.mit.edu>
- Sender: tim@rri.UUCP (Tim Buck)
- Organization: Recognition Research Inc., Blacksburg, VA
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- In article <1992Sep8.044943.2984@athena.mit.edu> 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?
- >
- Type your tar command (probably "tar xvf < /dev/rfd0b") in a Terminal window
- *before* you insert the floppy; you'll get a panel asking you to insert it then.
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