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Re: Mac disk on a SparcStation: a simpler method

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From: Geza Bohus
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1993 19:43
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I already answered the original question by email, but it seems that
several people missed a very simple solution: tar. A small and free
utility on the Mac can read/write disks in tar format. You need a high
density disk formatted on the Mac and that's it. On the Unix you type

tar cvf /dev/fd0a file.names.here

to create an archive and

tar xvf /dev/fd0a 

to extract it. If you're using this frequently, you can also say

setenv TAPE /dev/fd0a

in your .login file, and forget the f and /dev/fd0a above, so you'll
have

tar cv filenames

and 

tar xv

Oh, yes: tar for the Mac is on the archives, e.g. at umich it's
util/compression/tar3.0.sit.hqx. 

Hope this helps. It is slightly simpler than going through DOS disks.

g
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Subject: Re: Mac disk on a SparcStation: a simpler method
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