From: karuottu AT freenet DOT hut DOT fi ("Kai Ruottu") Subject: Re: tar and Windows 95 4 Dec 1996 06:34:27 -0800 Sender: daemon AT cygnus DOT com Approved: cygnus DOT gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com Distribution: cygnus Message-ID: <199612041401.QAA25991.cygnus.gnu-win32@freenet.hut.fi> Reply-To: karuottu AT freenet DOT hut DOT fi Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Comments: Authenticated sender is Original-To: gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v2.42a) Original-Sender: owner-gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com > I tried to run the following command on my Windows 95 console under > bash, and also from an MS-DOS prompt, using the beta-16 tools: > > tar -cvf /dev/fd0 my_directory_to_be_saved. > > I got a "no such process" message. Does anyone have any suggestions, or > do you want more info? Should the Cygnus-tar work with raw diskettes at all?.... I think it will not (I have still Rel-14 in use).... An alternative GNU tar with floppy support is the DOS/OS2 - version from Hobbes-OS/2 archive, it is version 1.09, and the name is something like 'gnutar.zip' and resides under /unix/... in the archive.... This runs under DOS and NT (with forcedos), and gives the opportunity to move stuff in tar-format on floppies, even to use multiple floppies to split a big file with the 'tar cM...' command.... BTW. the DOS/OS2 tar doesn't support tapes and the only solution seems to be the win32tar from CICA or winsite... but this doesn't support floppies, so we must now have two tars for Win32... unless we use also the Cygnus tar for gzip'ed files (these two can have difficulties to use packed files...), so we perhaps need three of this kind... - For help on using this list, send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".