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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.apps Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!europa.eng.gtefsd.com!news.umbc.edu!haven.umd.edu!purdue!news.cs.indiana.edu!lynx.unm.edu!usenet.enmu.edu!fimad8!mikey From: mikey@math.enmu.edu (Mike Blandford, EES-5) Subject: Re: Sun computers and Floppy Disks Sender: news@math.enmu.edu Message-ID: <1994Apr8.153428.27771@math.enmu.edu> Date: Fri, 8 Apr 1994 15:34:28 GMT Reply-To: mikey@math.enmu.edu References: <2o2806$r7k@newshost.lanl.gov> Organization: Mathematical Sciences Department Lines: 25 In article r7k@newshost.lanl.gov, jxg@demos.lanl.gov () writes: > I discovered something really cool yesterday that some people might not > have realized (I didn't for a year and a half of using *bsd). The SunOS > program fdformat and tar appear to be compatible with FreeBSD 1.0.2. > This is not surprising now that I think about it, but before yesterday > I had never thought about it. I always used to use the klunky DOS format > to sneaker net files around, as I knew it was compatible. > > john > I used to use Sun's floppies to move stuff to my linux box. ( with tar ). It works nicely. Get gnu tar for you Sun so you can do multiple volumes. --- Mikey ^[:wq Damn, thought I was in vi. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- | mikey@truman.lanl.gov Michael Blandford | | mikey@math.enmu.edu Computer Systems Administrator | | Huh Huh that was cool !!! Los Alamos National Laboratory | -------------------------------------------------------------------------