From: Kevin Cummings (cummings@hammer.cv.com)
Date: 08/25/93


From: cummings@hammer.cv.com (Kevin Cummings)
Subject: Re: *HELP: Storing a1.3(SLS) at DEC-5000
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 1993 20:58:39 GMT

In article <1993Aug18.174216.71356@cc.usu.edu>, slzw0@cc.usu.edu writes:
>
> I was working at DEC-5000 workstaion in order to store SLS "a1" (
> the first disk) into 3.5" disk (a1.3) but it was not successful because
>
> 1) a1.3 was bigger than 1.44M
> 2) according to the SLS README file, I am suppose to store in image
> format (cannot use "mcopy"). So, I tried "dd if=a1.3 of=/dev/floppy
> bs=16k) but didn't work.
>
> How can I store a1.3 into 3.5" format disk if I would like to work at DEC-5000?
> Additionally, I wonder, all of those a1-x10 are binary files. (Should I
> FTP all of those files at binary mode?) Thank you very much.

On my Sun SPARC system, it is "dd if=a1.3 of=/dev/rfd0 bs=whatever"

Note the use of the RAW floppy disk device instead of the BLOCKed floppy disk
device.

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Kevin J. Cummings                       ComputerVision Services
cummings@kjc386.framingham.ma.us        cummings@primerd.cv.com