4BSD/usr/man/cat8/arff.8

ARFF(8)             UNIX Programmer's Manual              ARFF(8)



NAME
     arff, flcopy - archiver and copier for floppy

SYNOPSIS
     /etc/arff [ key ] [ name ... ]
     /etc/flcopy [ -h ] [ -t_n ]

DESCRIPTION
     _A_r_f_f saves and restores files on the console floppy disk.
     Its actions are controlled by the _k_e_y argument.  The _k_e_y is
     a string of characters containing at most one function
     letter and possibly one or more function modifiers.  Other
     arguments to the command are file names specifying which
     files are to be dumped or restored.

     Files names have restrictions, because of radix50 considera-
     tions.  They must be in the form 1-6 alphanumerics followed
     by "." followed by 0-3 alphanumerics.  Case distinctions are
     lost.  Only the trailing component of a pathname is used.

     The function portion of the key is specified by one of the
     following letters:

     r       The named files are replaced where found on the
             floppy, or added taking up the minimal possible por-
             tion of the first empty spot on the floppy.

     x       The named files are extracted from the floppy.

     d       The named files are deleted from the floppy.  Arff
             will combine contiguous deleted files into one empty
             entry in the rt-11 directory.

     t       The names of the specified files are listed each
             time they occur on the floppy.  If no file argument
             is given, all of the names on the floppy are listed.

     The following characters may be used in addition to the
     letter which selects the function desired.

     v         Normally _a_r_f_f does its work silently.  The v (ver-
               bose) option causes it to type the name of each
               file it treats preceded by the function letter.
               With the t function, v gives more information
               about the floppy entries than just the name.

     f         causes _a_r_f_f to use the next argument as the name
               of the archive instead of /dev/floppy.

     m         causes _a_r_f_f not to use the mapping algorithm
               employed in interleaving sectors around a floppy
               disk.  In conjunction with the f option it may be



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ARFF(8)             UNIX Programmer's Manual              ARFF(8)



               used for extracting files from rt11 formatted car-
               tridge disks, for example.

     _F_l_c_o_p_y copies the console floppy disk (opened as
     `/dev/floppy') to a file created in the current directory,
     named "floppy", then prints the message "Change Floppy, hit
     return when done".  Then _f_l_c_o_p_y copies the local file back
     out to the floppy disk.

     The -h option to _f_l_c_o_p_y causes it to open a file named
     "floppy" in the current directory and copy it to
     /_d_e_v/_f_l_o_p_p_y; the -t option causes only the first _n tracks to
     participate in a copy.

FILES
     /dev/floppy
     floppy (in current directory)

AUTHORS
     Keith Sklower, Richard Tuck

BUGS
     Floppy errors are handled ungracefully; _A_r_f_f does not handle
     multi-segment rt11 directories.































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