Reading Tar floppies on a NeXT

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From: John G Shirlaw
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 04:49

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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.

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