I have to tar a file on to multiple floppies and view it on a dos box.
What is the best way to do this?
I was thinking something like tar -cvf /dev/fd0 file.out
would I be able to take these floppies and see them on a dos box?
Can I tar to a dos formatted floppy like that?
Is there a another utility I need to run to get files ready for viewing in
dos?
I don't have access to the unix system yet so I can't test if it works, I
don't even know what version of unix it is until I get there later today.

thanks

dave wrote:
> I have to tar a file on to multiple floppies and view it on a dos box.
> What is the best way to do this?
> I was thinking something like tar -cvf /dev/fd0 file.out
If that's the appropriate device file, that will generally work
for most implementations of tar on most UNIX operating systems.
It may be advisable to specify a blocking factor to tar where
the floppy capacity is an integral multiple of the block size used
with tar. A tar block size equal to the floppy cylinder or track size
may be fairly optimal for writing efficiency. E.g. for a 3.5" 1440KiB
floppy (512bytes*18(sectors/track)*80tracks*2sides) a block size of
18*512bytes or 2*18*512bytes may be optimal.
> would I be able to take these floppies and see them on a dos box?
> Can I tar to a dos formatted floppy like that?
> Is there a another utility I need to run to get files ready for viewing in
> dos?
> I don't have access to the unix system yet so I can't test if it works, I
> don't even know what version of unix it is until I get there later today.
http://www.chrysocome.net/dd
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dd_%28Unix%29
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WinRaWrite
http://www.cygwin.com/