MAB01057%UFRJ.BITNET@cornellc.cit.cornell.edu (Marcelo Amarante Ferreira Gomes) (05/03/90)
In a previous article, Andrew "Noid" Cagney asked us to know the way we transfer files among systems. I use tar, as he does, to get a storage format I can read on any OS I have (Minix, Xenix and MessyDog - I had to port tar to the latter), but to quickly transfer files among systems, without wanting a backup to store, I symply use "dd if=file of=/dev/fd0". To transfer more than one file in a single disk, I specify a "seek" or "skip" argument, taking note of the size in blocks of the files. I know this is not the most elegant way, but it does work and is a fast, reliable way to transfer a few files with really NO conversions applyed. In MessyDog, of course, I must do cr/lf translation, so I must use tar instead, or post-process the files there (I have written a "putcr" program to do that). Marcelo A. Ferreira Gomes (Wally Gator) <MAB01057@UFRJ.bitnet>