Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!ernie.Berkeley.EDU!carvalho From: carvalho@ernie.Berkeley.EDU (Marcio de Carvalho) Newsgroups: comp.unix.microport Subject: Re: backup procedures Keywords: V/AT, cpio,tar,volcopy,floppy Message-ID: <26264@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU> Date: 29 Sep 88 03:10:44 GMT References: <101@k0jfv.UUCP> <458@fallst.UUCP> Sender: usenet@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU Reply-To: carvalho@ernie.Berkeley.EDU.UUCP (Marcio de Carvalho) Distribution: na Organization: University of California, Berkeley Lines: 14 If you want to avoid havig to type the floppy device name every time you change, you may use the undocumented program ncpio, as: ncpio 'options' -I/dev/diskette I discovered this by browsing thru the sysadm script files... Have fun. --Marcio =--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--=--= = Marcio de Carvalho = = IEOR Department = = ...!ucbvax!ernie!carvalho University of California at Berkeley =