From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 25 13:48:55 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id NAA20300 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:48:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from main.gbdata.com (Main.GBData.COM [207.90.222.20]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id NAA20242 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 13:48:46 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from gclarkii@localhost) by main.gbdata.com (8.7.5/8.6.9) id PAA05143; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:47:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Gary Clark II Message-Id: <199609252047.PAA05143@main.gbdata.com> Subject: Re: spanning To: davidn@sdev.blaze.net.au (David Nugent) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:47:59 -0500 (CDT) Cc: hmmm@alaska.net, questions@FreeBSD.org In-Reply-To: from David Nugent at "Sep 25, 96 09:58:11 pm" X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk David Nugent wrote: > On Tue, 24 Sep 1996, hmmm wrote: > > >is there a simple method to span floppies (like pkzip &) > >when cp-ing and/or tarballing? > > tar/gzip + split. Try 'tar cvMLf 1435 /dev/rfd0a directory'. Works just fine. To unarchive it, do 'tar xvMLf 1435 /dev/rfd0a'. > Gary -- Gary Clark II (N5VMF) | I speak only for myself and "maybe" my company gclarkii@GBData.COM | Member of the FreeBSD Doc Team Providing Internet and ISP startups mail info@GBData.COM for information FreeBSD FAQ at ftp://ftp.FreeBSD.ORG/pub/FreeBSD/docs/freebsd-faq.ascii