psfales@cbnewsc.ATT.COM (Peter Fales) (01/31/90)
In article <3894@cbnewsl.ATT.COM>, wtr@moss.ATT.COM (3673,ATTT) writes: > > First of all, many thanks to Craig Votava for the dsplit > tool. this is proving to be very useful. > > Writing to the floppy seems to go okay, ie. it uses the > proper number of floppies for the size of the input stream. > > Reading back in from the floppies, the program never seems > to detect the last disk in the sequence. It goes merrily > along it's way, prompting for more floppies. > Are you using cpio? There is nothing inherent in dsplit that knows where the stream of floppies ends. However if you write with find <options> | cpio -ocv | compress | dsplit -o (compress optional) and read with dsplit -i | uncompress | cpio -icvd the cpio knows where the stream ends and will terminate the command. I have used dsplit quite successfully this way on both the 7300 and my 6386 machine. Peter Fales AT&T, Room 5B-420 N9IYJ 2000 N. Naperville Rd. UUCP: ...att!ihlpb!psfales Naperville, IL 60566 Domain: psfales@ihlpb.att.com work: (708) 979-8031 -- Peter Fales AT&T, Room 5B-420 N9IYJ 2000 N. Naperville Rd. UUCP: ...att!ihlpb!psfales Naperville, IL 60566 Domain: psfales@ihlpb.att.com work: (708) 979-8031