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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: How to backup to floppy. Yes, floppy :-)
Date: 23 Feb 1994 21:28:09 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <1994Feb22.201005.29008@bcarh54a.bnr.ca>,
Bo Xiao <xiao@bcarh2c.bnr.ca> wrote:
>I believe tar is the best candidate for doing such. Unfortunately, most
>versions of tar do not deal with multivolumn(floppies). There is a bar
>in SunOS handles multivolumn. And I correct? (I can not find the man pages
>for tar on my FreeBSD 1.0.2.)

That's because it's GNU tar and has no manpage.  But, it has multi-volume
support and can be used.


Nate

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