On Wed, Mar 11, 1998 at 10:45:48PM -0500, Dave Wreski wrote:
>
> On 12-Mar-98 Robert Hailman wrote:
> > Hello. When I get Linux working :o) there are some games I want to import
> > from work. At work we have a Xenix network, so could I read a Xenix disk in
> > Linux, or would I have to email it to my Windows 95 box and transfer it on
> > disk to my Linux box?
>
> Yes, `mount' supports xenix filesystems.
>
> In the future, you don't have to create a filesytem on the floppy to read it,
> though. If you format the floppy (with any filesystem, as long as it has the
> tracks defined) you can just use tar to put the data on there, which doesn't
> need a real filesystem.
>
> If that's confusing (since you don't have Linux installed yet) don't worry
> about it, I guess, but the point is that you can `format' the floppy, then
> write sector-by-sector to the floppy using tar, which Linux will understand as
> well.
but you need to be careful, not all tar programs are created equal. One
area in which I've found them to be unequal is what do they do when
a file gets split across volumes.... While I've not specifically compared
an old xenix tar to GNU tar in that respect, I wouldn't be surprised if
they are not fully compatible.
Fred
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