Date: January 7, 2000
The following is a list of the most common commands for reading floppy diskettes in AIX.
Diskette Format |
Command to View Diskette |
Comments |
PC DOS |
dosdir -l |
Part of the "bos.dosutil" package in AIX. Related commands: dosread, doswrite, dosdel, dosformat |
Unix |
tar -tvf /dev/rfd0 |
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Unix |
restore -Tvq |
Diskettes created with the AIX backup command |
Unix |
cpio -itv </dev/rfd0 |
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See the AIX documentation at http://www.rs6000.ibm.com/library for using these commands to read/write to diskettes.