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From: conklin@kaleida.com (J.T. Conklin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development
Subject: Re: any chance of...
Date: 31 Mar 93 09:41:52
Organization: Kaleida Labs, Inc., Mountain View, CA
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In-reply-to: mark@roissy.umd.edu's message of 30 Mar 1993 23:35:01 GMT
Mark> I've had these prompts from various tar programs:
Mark> gnutar: Prepare volume #%d and hit return:
Mark> pax: Type "go" when ready to proceed (or "quit" to abort):
Mark> cpio: If you want to go on, type device/file name when ready
Mark> I find it unpleasant to have to enter the device name again, therefore
Mark> I dislike cpio.
You don't need to enter the device name if you use the "-I" flag (or
"-O", if you're creating an archive):
cpio -idamuvI /dev/fd0a
Then, like gnu tar, all you need do is hit return.
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