arff \- archiver for floppy
on the console floppy disk.
Its actions are controlled by the
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 considerations. They
must be in the form 1-6 alphanumerics followed by "." followed by
0-3 alphanumerics. Case distinctions are lost. Only the trailing component
the key is specified by one of the following letters:
are replaced where found on the floppy, or added taking up
the minimal possible portion of the first empty spot on the floppy.
The named files are extracted from the floppy.
The named files are deleted from the floppy. Arff will combine contiguous
deleted files into one empty entry in the rt-11 directory.
The names of the specified files are listed each time they occur
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.
option causes it to type the name of each file it treats
preceded by the function letter.
gives more information about the
floppy entries than just the name.
to use the next argument as the name of the archive instead
not to use the mapping algorithm employed in interleaving sectors
around a floppy disk. In conjunction with the
used for extracting files from rt11 formatted cartridge disks, for
``Configuring the Berkeley Virtual Memory Extensions to theUNIX System''
which describes how to set up boot files on the floppy.
Multiple segmented rt11 directories are not yet supported.
Floppy errors are handled ungracefully.
Keith Sklower, Richard Tuck