[ALUG] wintar floppy archive

[Wayne Stallwood]

As far as I can tell WinTAR writes standard tar archives..the key thing
being of course that it looks like they are written as such straight
onto the floppy as if it were a raw block device rather than being
written to a file on the floppy filesystem.

I am guessing here but I would have expected that dd'ing the floppy into
a file and then using tar to extract from that would work.

so dd if=/dev/fd0 of=floppy1.tar

substitute the device node for whatever the floppy device is on your
system...you don't mention if you are using the original SCSI floppy
drive or not.

Set the write protect tab on the floppies so that no silly mistakes can
be made..naturally

What did you do so wrong that your punishment is to extract data from
500 floppies...must have been pretty bad :-)