Re: Reading Tar floppies on a NeXT

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From: Tim Buck
Date: Tue, 08 Sep 1992 14:00

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In article <1992Sep8.044943.2984@athena.mit.edu> 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?
>
Type your tar command (probably "tar xvf < /dev/rfd0b") in a Terminal window
*before* you insert the floppy; you'll get a panel asking you to insert it then.

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Subject: Re: Reading Tar floppies on a NeXT
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