Re: how to read a (ie:'tar') floppy?!?

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From: Volker Herminghaus-Shirai
Date: Wed, 06 Jan 1993 21:11

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In article <1id1irINNmr8@anthrax.solbourne.com> hanzel@solbourne.com (Karl  
Hanzel) writes:
> Ok, i give up...
> 
> What's the secret to being able to stuff (just for example) a 'tar' floppy
> into a NeXT's drive and then to read it?  The scenario is this:  i'm here
> at work, and i write off a 'tar' floppy on a machine here.  I go home and  
plug
> it in my NeXT, only to be prompted "Floppy unreadable:  initialize or  
eject?:"
> by a dialog window.  It expects that any floppy you stick in it is supposed  
to
> be a mountable file system.

Simple. Issue the tar command first, before inserting the disk. You will
be prompted to insert the disk.

--
Volker Herminghaus-Shirai (vhs@qb.rhein-main.de), NeXTmail welcome

Looks good on the outside, but -
	intel inside

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Subject: Re: how to read a (ie:'tar') floppy?!?
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