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From: cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.i386
Subject: Re: compressed cpio -c
Keywords: uncompress / cpio -c / 3 floppies
Message-ID: <1990Jul01.013448.1510@virtech.uucp>
Date: 1 Jul 90 01:34:48 GMT
References: <191@hacker.UUCP>
Reply-To: cpcahil@virtech.UUCP (Conor P. Cahill)
Organization: Virtual Technologies Inc., Sterling VA
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In article <191@hacker.UUCP> steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) writes:
>'uncompress < /dev/rdsk/f0t | cpio -ictv' works up to a point.  Specifically
>up to the point where it should ask me to swap disks but instead says
>'unexpected end of archive' and aborts.  I'd very much like to get this stuff
>onto my hard disk, but my Unix knowledge just isn't up to snuff.  Someone
>please help. -- SMY

Try:

	dd if=/dev/rdsk/f0t of=disk1 bs=15k
	dd if=/dev/rdsk/f0t of=disk2 bs=15k
	dd if=/dev/rdsk/f0t of=disk3 bs=15k


	cat disk? | uncompress | cpio...



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