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From: asp@puck.UUCP (Andy Puchrik)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: cpio: Microport <-> Xenix
Message-ID: <232@puck.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 18-Sep-87 06:46:20 EDT
Article-I.D.: puck.232
Posted: Fri Sep 18 06:46:20 1987
Date-Received: Sun, 20-Sep-87 01:29:19 EDT
Organization: Moonlight Systems, Maynard, MA
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Keywords: not multi-volume

I was recently moving some s/w via floppy from uport to xenix when I got
a rude shock.  Cpio works fine (after you get the device names right) as
long as you only use a single floppy.  Uport cpio handles multiple floppies
fine.  Xenix cpio exits to shell after writing a full floppy or reading in
the first of a multi-volume set.

I know about the xenix backup command, but I like the flexibility of cpio.
Is it possible to read a multi-volume cpio set of floppies on xenix? (I
haven't tried to dd and cat together the files.)  This was xenix V2.2.1.

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