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From: clarke@acheron.uucp (Ed Clarke/10240000)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.aix
Subject: Re: diskette copying in rt/aix
Message-ID: <1989Oct14.195624.28924@acheron.uucp>
Date: 14 Oct 89 19:56:24 GMT
References: <5827@portia.Stanford.EDU>
Organization: Ciliophora Associates
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From article <5827@portia.Stanford.EDU>, by karish@forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish):
- Installp uses backup format, like updatep.  I've had good luck using
- restore to read the files from diskette into a directory hierarchy on
- hard disk, then use backup to collect the hierarchy into a single file
- in hard disk.  Updatep can use such a file to apply an update, given a

There's a command to do this - /etc/bffcreate.  It does the same thing for
you in one step.   Before someone told me about this, I was doing the same
thing as you are.  
-- 
Ed Clarke
acheron!clarke