On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Hamish Moffatt wrote: > On Thu, Oct 29, 1998 at 05:45:57PM -0800, Joey Hess wrote: > > Joey Hess wrote: > > > * Get and install mtools.deb > > > * Edit /etc/mtools.conf, set it up so it can access your dos partition, as > > > say, drive c: (follow the comments, looks easy). > > > * mtype c:/huge.tar.gz | tar .... > > > > Hm, looking through the mtools docs, you may need to first mcd c: and then > > mtype huge.tar.gz. > > Under DOS, type is for text files and will termiante reading at the > first ^Z I would guess; if mtype mimics this, it won't work.
I would never have made that connection... I did know that DOS's type did that, at one time, back in the day :) I've just been through the mtools code pretty thoroughly, but didn't find anything that checked for a ^Z.... ________________________________________________________________________ ***PGP fingerprint = D5 EB F8 E7 64 55 CF 91 C2 4F E0 4D 18 B6 7C 27*** [EMAIL PROTECTED] / http://www.op.net/~darxus Chaos reigns.