Hello
I need to copy several files to floppy disk but i don't know if i can create
a filesystem, mounting and then copy them on it.

Thanks.

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jose <jperezme@jazzfree.com> wrote:
j> Hello
j> I need to copy several files to floppy disk but i don't know if i can create
j> a filesystem, mounting and then copy them on it.

You usually use dd(1) for this or one of the utilities for reading
and writing to a DOS filesystem on a floppy disk.

Regards,

Nicholas


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In article <bg1od7$t4b$1@nsnmrro2-gest.nuria.telefonica-data.net>,
jperezme@jazzfree.com says...
> Hello
> I need to copy several files to floppy disk but i don't know if i can create
> a filesystem, mounting and then copy them on it.
>
> Thanks.
>

With the AIX on-board tools you have two choices:
a) use the dosformat, dosread, doswrite et commands to
write your files to a FAT formatted diskette
- you can read the diskette in any DOS/Windows PC
- only DOS (8+3) filenames are possible

b) use tar to write to the diskette device
- you can read the diskette only on a unix machine
- your filenames are preserved

Markus

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