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From: mark@promark.UUCP (Mark J. DeFilippis)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Backing Up My Xenix Distribution Disks
Summary: You don't have to back them up if you don't want to...
Keywords: Perplexed ! Hrumpphh !
Message-ID: <2710@promark.UUCP>
Date: 3 May 90 00:42:01 GMT
References: <2479@crash.cts.com>
Organization: Promark Data Concepts, Garden City, NY
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In article <2479@crash.cts.com>, jburnes@crash.cts.com (Jim Burnes) writes:
> I just got Xenix386 and would like to know the easiest way to backup my
> distribution diskettes.  I dont want to go through makeing a file system
> and then do recursive directory copies, if that what it entails.

This brings up a point.  Why bother backing them up?

This is one of the major differences between PCDOS software and the Unix/Xenix
world.  You are licensed the software in such a way so that if a diskette
went bad, or you had a fire, or the dog ate them.   you call SCO, and for
a small media charge they send you a new set of disks.

In any case, if you do want to copy them look at dd(C)...

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Mark J. DeFilippis
Manager Unix systems complex, Academic Computing Center
Adelphi University, Garden City, NY 11530                  (516) 663-1170
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