On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 18:29 -0700, Mace Eliason wrote: > But will cpio split the file it is to large to fit on a floppy? What > about the files I have on the disc right now. I was using dos formated > floppies and then ran tar to do the copy. Is it possible that I can > read them using some of the suggested way? > > Sorry, I missed one of your posts where you explained what command line you used. To extract, you might try: tar xvMf /dev/floppy or tar xvMf /dev/fdxxx where fdxxx is any one of the devices you see when you do a ls dev/fd* I feel your pain. It's always frustrating when the machine is 100 miles away from your office. Its also possible that: cat < /dev/floppy >> tempfile.tar for each of the diskettes in order to concatenate their contents together, and then when you've done them all: tar xvf tempfile.tar *might* just work. -Steve