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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?

>thanks in advance

>john shirlaw.

Since you most likely used >format< on the rs/6k, the next would not be able to
read the disk. Use dosformat instead, writing out the tar-file with >doswrite<
(slow.) Another possibility would be to tar at the 6k onto the raw fd device 
while reading it on the next with >tar -xvf /dev/rfd0a < (untested). However,
rcp, ftp, tftp, ... between the 6k and the next would be nicer.

Cheers,

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