To: clgp08@vaxa.strath.ac.uk

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>Could someone therefore please tell myself (and other) Linux novices how to
>read rawritten files from floppy onto the hard disk partition. A similar plea
>was posted a few weeks ago and the poster was told to read the faq. I HAVE read
>the faq but it doesnt cover this particular problem.
>
>Hope someone can help. Thanks in advance.

This is the method I used before mtools.

uncompress < /dev/fd0 | tar -xvf -

Provided your reading from floppy A.

       Chris Nalley
       copernicus@digund.uucp