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From: weverka@spot.Colorado.EDU (Robert T. Weverka)
Subject: Re: Files from Sun to a Mac
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In article <1991Jun21.065957.24540@hardy.u.washington.edu> sentvas@hardy.acs.washington.edu (Senthilvasan Supramaniam) writes:
>	I just checked, SunTar is available by anonymous ftp from sumex-aim
>in the directory info-mac/unix.

you will of course need to learn how to use tar on the sun end of things.

If you are a unix hack you'll want to read the Unix manual on tape archives.
   man tar

If you're not, here is what to do.


Initialize disk                                 fdformat

list the contents of disk                       tar tf /dev/rfd0
list the contents of disk (long format)         tar tvf /dev/rfd0

Replace entire disk contents with new           tar cvf /dev/rfd0 filename
Add a file to the disk                          tar rvf /dev/rfd0 filename

Put entire disk contents into current directory tar xf /dev/rfd0
Put a disk file into current directory          tar xf /dev/rfd0 filename

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to make things easy add these to you .cshrc file

alias dls tar tf /dev/rfd0
alias dll tar tvf /dev/rfd0
alias cp2d tar rvf /dev/rfd0
alias cpfd tar xf /dev/rfd0

You may of course name these differently, the motivation for these names is:
As memory aid "d" is for disk,
"dls"            should work like unix ls command.
"dll"            should work like unix ls -l
"cp2d filename"  copy filename to disk
"cpfd filename"  copy from disk