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Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
Transferring Data To and From a Floppy Diskette
This section describes how to transfer data to and from your floppy diskette
(saving and restoring) using the HP-UX tar command with your floppy
drive’s device file.
The tar (tape file archiver) command saves files to a floppy diskette, restores
files from a floppy diskette, or lists files on a floppy diskette.
You need to set the write protect tab to the write position to transfer data to
the diskette. The write-protect tab can be in either position when restoring
data from a diskette or listing the files on a diskette.
Saving Files to a Floppy Diskette
Use the following instructions to save files to a floppy diskette:
1 Check that the write-protect tab on the floppy diskette is in the write position.
2 Load the formatted floppy diskette into the disk drive.
3 In a terminal window, enter the following command line to write to the diskette:
tar -cvf devicefile pathname
where devicefile is the device file as listed by sam and pathname is the pathname
of the file or directory containing files that you want to write to the diskette.
Restoring Files from a Floppy Diskette to Your System
Use the following instructions to restore files from a floppy diskette to your
system:
1 Load the floppy diskette into the disk drive.
2 In a terminal window, use the cd command to change to the directory you want
the files to reside in:
cd directory_path
where directory_path is the pathname of the directory.