compressed cpio -c

[Conor P. Cahill]

In article <191 at hacker.UUCP> steve at hacker.UUCP (Stephen M. Youndt) writes:
>'uncompress < /dev/rdsk/f0t | cpio -ictv' works up to a point.  Specifically
>up to the point where it should ask me to swap disks but instead says
>'unexpected end of archive' and aborts.  I'd very much like to get this stuff
>onto my hard disk, but my Unix knowledge just isn't up to snuff.  Someone
>please help. -- SMY

Try:

	dd if=/dev/rdsk/f0t of=disk1 bs=15k
	dd if=/dev/rdsk/f0t of=disk2 bs=15k
	dd if=/dev/rdsk/f0t of=disk3 bs=15k


	cat disk? | uncompress | cpio...



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