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- From: splee@pd.org (Seng-Poh Lee, Speedy)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.misc
- Subject: Re: Help! How to get tar to read UNIX archives??
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- Date: 11 Nov 92 15:08:02 GMT
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- Conor McMenamin (mppu3@syma.sussex.ac.uk) wrote:
- > Hi,
- > Does anyone out there use Unix tar on 1.44Mb floppies to
- > transfer files to a PC? If so could you tell me how to do it, because I
-
- There is a set of tools for Unix called 'mtools' that will read and
- write PC format disks. This might be a better solution than tar. It
- compiles under Sun, Xenix, and a bunch of other *nixes. Available at
- all major sites.
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- Seng-Poh Lee <splee@pd.org>
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