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From: aslam@sp63.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sohail Aslam)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.programmer
Subject: reading Sun Sparc floppies
Keywords: sun, sparc
Message-ID: <1991Mar6.224017.12866@csrd.uiuc.edu>
Date: 6 Mar 91 22:40:17 GMT
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Reply-To: aslam@sp63.csrd.uiuc.edu (Sohail Aslam)
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The Sun Sparcstation comes with 3.5" floppy drive. This can be used
to write files to the floppy using the unix tar command, for example:

	sun> tar cvf /dev/fd *

The floppy is formatted using the SunOS "fdformat" command. Does any
one have a program for the amiga that can read such a tar from a
floppy? 

This is for a friend; please pardon me if this a FAQ. Please reply
directly to me via e-mail.

Thanks,


Sohail Aslam
Center for Supercomputing Research and Development
University of Illinois
aslam@csrd.uiuc.edu