diskette copying in rt/aix
Ed Clarke/10240000
clarke at acheron.uucp
Sun Oct 15 05:56:24 AEST 1989
>From article <5827 at portia.Stanford.EDU>, by karish at forel.stanford.edu (Chuck Karish):
- Installp uses backup format, like updatep. I've had good luck using
- restore to read the files from diskette into a directory hierarchy on
- hard disk, then use backup to collect the hierarchy into a single file
- in hard disk. Updatep can use such a file to apply an update, given a
There's a command to do this - /etc/bffcreate. It does the same thing for
you in one step. Before someone told me about this, I was doing the same
thing as you are.
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Ed Clarke
acheron!clarke
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