From: cgwillme@cybaswan.UUCP (r b willmersdorf) Subject: Tar to write proctected floppies ? Date: 19 Aug 1992 19:38:51 GMT
Hi,
If i put a write protected floppy in drive a: I can do:
%tar cvf /dev/fd0 files # lists files as if they were being written to
# the floppy. Of course, they aren't.
%mkfs -c /dev/fd0 1440 # It _migth_ be fdformat, but I don't think so.
# My stuff is at home. It happyly reports progress.
# Nut I don't think it does.
Is it only me? Is this a feature :) ? It already got me a few times,
I deleted some files I thought were backed up when they weren't.
I'm running 0.97p1+
bye, (and obthanks to everybody involved in this project.)