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From: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport
Subject: Re: Backups of Distibution Floppies
Message-ID: <764@mccc.UUCP>
Date: 25 May 89 14:49:56 GMT
References: <752@mccc.UUCP> <3501@ddsw1.MCS.COM>
Reply-To: pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg)
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In article <3501@ddsw1.MCS.COM> karl@ddsw1.UUCP (Karl Denninger) writes:
=In article <752@mccc.UUCP> pjh@mccc.UUCP (Pete Holsberg) writes:
=>I have Microport V/386 and a friend has SCO Xenix/386, and we were both
=>wondering how to make backups of the distribution floppy disks?  Can you use
=>DISKCOPY or are they *NIX-formatted disks?  If the latter, are they mountable,
=>or are the files tar/cpio archives?  Or ???
=
=This comes up often enough to warrant a post....
=
	[details of using *NIX to copy a floppy deleted]
	
Thanks, Karl.  Do you have instructions for doing this from MSDOS?



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Pete Holsberg, Mercer County Community College, Trenton, NJ 08690  
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