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From: jbayer@ispi.UUCP (Jonathan Bayer)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.xenix
Subject: Re: Backups of Distibution Floppies
Message-ID: <612@ispi.UUCP>
Date: 22 May 89 12:27:50 GMT
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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 ???


I wouldn't know about microport, but on SCO Xenix there is the command:

	diskcp		for 360K diskettes, and
	diskcp -96	for 1.2 meg diskettes.

I don't have a 3 1/2 " disk drive so I can't help you for those.

JB

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