steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) (07/01/90)
A person was kind enough to provide me with some software in 3 floppies, but I'm too ignorant to properly restore the stuff. Perhaps somebody "out there" could get me through this. 'uncompress < /dev/rdsk/f0t | cpio -ictv' works up to a point. Specifically up to the point where it should ask me to swap disks but instead says 'unexpected end of archive' and aborts. I'd very much like to get this stuff onto my hard disk, but my Unix knowledge just isn't up to snuff. Someone please help. -- SMY -- Stephen M. Youndt / "Remember, no matter where you go, uunet!hacker!steve / there you are." -- B. Banzai
cpcahil@virtech.uucp (Conor P. Cahill) (07/01/90)
In article <191@hacker.UUCP> steve@hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) writes: >'uncompress < /dev/rdsk/f0t | cpio -ictv' works up to a point. Specifically >up to the point where it should ask me to swap disks but instead says >'unexpected end of archive' and aborts. I'd very much like to get this stuff >onto my hard disk, but my Unix knowledge just isn't up to snuff. Someone >please help. -- SMY Try: dd if=/dev/rdsk/f0t of=disk1 bs=15k dd if=/dev/rdsk/f0t of=disk2 bs=15k dd if=/dev/rdsk/f0t of=disk3 bs=15k cat disk? | uncompress | cpio... -- Conor P. Cahill (703)430-9247 Virtual Technologies, Inc., uunet!virtech!cpcahil 46030 Manekin Plaza, Suite 160 Sterling, VA 22170