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Re: /dev/floppy and tar on the DECstation 3100's

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU)
Tue Oct 29 14:12:02 1991

From: epeisach@Athena.MIT.EDU
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 91 14:11:56 -0500
To: wchuang@Athena.MIT.EDU
Cc: bugs@Athena.MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: 8502



If you use the -s argument all is fine.

tar cvfs /dev/floppy 1440 .

Also, you can fool tar, with the following:

kangaroo% ln -s /dev/floppy foo
kangaroo% tar cvf foo  .

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