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Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
3 Enter the following command line:
tar -xvf devicefile pathname
where devicefile is the device file as listed by sam and pathname is the path-
name of the file or directory containing files that you want to restore from the
diskette. If you don’t specify pathname, everything on the floppy diskette is
restored.
Listing the Files on a Floppy Diskette
Use the following instructions to list the files on a floppy diskette:
1 Load the floppy diskette into the disk drive.
2 In a terminal window, enter the following command line:
tar -tvf devicefile
where devicefile is the device file as listed by sam.
All files on the floppy diskette are listed.