Listing The Files On A Floppy Diskette; For More Information - HP Visualize J5000 Owner's Manual

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. Enter the following in a terminal window at the prompt and press
:
Enter
tar -tvf devicefile
where devicefile is the device file as listed by SAM. Note that this
command will list all files on the floppy diskette.

For More Information

For more information on using tar and a complete list of the command
arguments, refer to the tar man page by typing the following in a
terminal window at the prompt and pressing
man tar
You can mount the floppy drive as a file system using either the mount
command or the SAM utility. Be sure to unmount the floppy's file system
before physically removing the floppy from the drive. For more
information about how to mount and unmount the floppy drive, see the
man page for mount, or the manual Using HP-UX.
For more information on copying data to or from your system to other
media, including your floppy diskette, refer to the cpio man page by
typing the following in a terminal window at the prompt and pressing
:
Enter
man cpio
For more information on copying to or from DOS files, refer to the doscp
man page by typing the following in a terminal window at the prompt
and pressing :
Enter
man doscp
For more information on listing DOS directories, refer to the dosls man
page by typing the following in a terminal window at the prompt and
pressing :
Enter
man dosls
Chapter 6
Using Your 3.5-Inch Floppy Disk Drive
Operating the Floppy Drive
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