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From: randy@chinet.chi.il.us (Randy Suess)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386,comp.sys.att
Subject: Re: 6386 WGS Questions
Keywords: Compatability Questions
Message-ID: <1989Nov13.150152.5602@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 13 Nov 89 15:01:52 GMT
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In article <1989Nov13.145552.5367@chinet.chi.il.us> les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell) writes:
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]The 3B2 uses the last track of the otherwise normal 720K format for its
]own purposes.  Thus, transfers with other machines would be limited to
]archives that fit on a single disk unless you do some tricky stuff
]to merge the pieces.

	Uh, if you mean a 386 machine reading 3b2 floppies via cpio,
	it works fine on multiple floppy archives.  I do it all the
	time.  Seems cpio could care less that the last track is
	bogus.  How do you think your humongus $HOME directory got
	transfered from the 3b2 to the 386, Les???

-randy
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Randy Suess
randy@chinet.chi.il.us