But will cpio split the file it is to large to fit on a floppy? What
about the files I have on the disc right now. I was using dos formated
floppies and then ran tar to do the copy. Is it possible that I can
read them using some of the suggested way?
Steve Bergman wrote:
>On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 20:15 -0500, William L. Maltby wrote:
>
>
>
>>I can't answer your question, but I would like to suggest an alternative
>>that might be less work. Use cpio to make on output file and compress it
>>onto floppy using the compress command, which I have checked also exists
>>on CentOS (I *presume that your old UNIX doesn't have {b,g}zip. I see a
>>reference also to pack, but it seems to be only man pages. Both of these
>>compressions programs are very old and should be on your system.
>>
>>
>
>For cpio, which does work well on SCO:
>
>cd path_to_directory
>find . | cpio -ocv | compress > /dev/rfd0135ds18
>
>and then to extract under Centos:
>
>cd path_to_where_you_want_to_extract
>gunzip < /dev/floppy | cpio -idmvc
>
>BTW, I don't think that multivolume archives work between SCO and Linux
>for either cpio or tar. They might work for cpio, but definitely not
>with compression.
>
>If it works and you need multivolume, you'd have to do:
>
>find . | cpio -ocv -O/dev/rfd0135ds18
>
>Also note (FWIW) that SCO's tar will silently fail to back up empty
>directories and will not backup device files.
>
>
>-Steve
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