Compaq C240, C180, C200, C360, C160 manual Listing the Files on a Floppy Diskette, Tar -tvf devicefile

Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive

Operating the Floppy Drive

3Enter the following command line:

tar -xvfdevicefile 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:

1Load the floppy diskette into the disk drive.

2In 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.

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