cpio

[Stephen J. Friedl]

In article <141 at genco.bungi.com>, rad at genco.bungi.com (Bob Daniel) writes
about cpio to multiple floppies, and gives the example for the 386:

> cpio -ocvmB >/dev/rdsk/f0

Then mentions:

> For 3B2, the raw floppy device is '/dev/rdiskette'


Note that on the 3B2, do NOT use the -B argument when dealing with
the raw device.  A floppy has 1422 blocks, and this is not an integral
number of 10-block chunks, and cpio on the 3B2 seems to require this.
If you're using Sys V Rel 3 and you want more buffering, use -C 9216
(9 kbytes).

     Steve

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