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I haven't had any success with this yet.

Take a floppy.  Stick it into a Sparc machine running some version
of SunOS 4.X.  Run a command such as:

    tar cvf filelist > /dev/fd0

Works wunnerful.

Now, stick that floppy into a different Sparc machine running
Solaris 2.5 (SunOS 5.5).

How do you get that information back?

I haven't had a whole heap of luck just yet (as ought to be
obvious by my asking).  So far, when I've needed to tar in a
floppy from somewhere, I go find a SunOS machine, rather than
spend a lot of time trying to figure this thing out.

I've been able to successfully mount a DOS floppy (using the
File Manager) and read DOS files.  But I have a number of floppies
that have been written in tar format as above (most I get from
third parties).

I'm not going to upgrade all our machines to Solaris until I'm
sure I won't lose this functionality!

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Quote:>I haven't had any success with this yet.

>Take a floppy.  Stick it into a Sparc machine running some version
>of SunOS 4.X.  Run a command such as:

>    tar cvf filelist > /dev/fd0

>Works wunnerful.

Is that what you indended?   I suspect not :-(

try: tar cvf /dev/fd0 filelist

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That's what comes from accessing the 'Net via a PC thru
an ISP, instead of sitting at a sparc workstation.  If I
want to double-check what I post before I post it, I have
to run back and forth between the sparcstation and the PC
(they're in different rooms!)  It's a real pain sometimes.

Anyway, I *still* don't know how to read the tar file
from Solaris!!

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on Linux I do:

mount /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy -t <file-system-type-on-target>

The above mounts the floppy device on /mnt/floppy,
replace file-system-type for the actual file system
onthe floppy (such as msdos, vfat, fat, hpfs etc..

Then I can use the floppy as another directory.
see if one can do the same on Solaris (I dont have
access to Solaris machine now).

Nasser

        % volcheck
        % tar tvf /vol/dev/diskette0/unlabeled

or

        % volcheck
        % tar tvf /vol/dev/aliases/floppy0

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That's Ok, nobody's obligated to think the way I do.
Just so's I know how it's done so's I can do it.

Thanks to all who responded!

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