HP Model 745 HP Model 745 Industrial Controller Owner's Guide - Page 149

Using Mass Storage Devices Operating the Floppy Drive 3 Enter the following command line: tar -xvf devicefile pathname Enter 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 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 Enter where devicefile is the device file as listed by sam. All files on the floppy diskette are listed. 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: man tar Enter The man utility looks up man pages on the system. You can mount the floppy drive as a file system using the SAM utility. Be sure to unmount the drive before removing it as a file system. For more information about how to mount and unmount the floppy drive, see the manual Using HP-UX (B2910-90001). 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: 8-33