Suppose that you have a list of files that you want to move to another machine using some compatible media. You could use the following vio command to create the media:
vio -ovblf listfile device
On the target machine, you can read this archive with:
vio -ivndf device
Assuming that this archive was on a 1.2 MB floppy, you could read this on a MS-DOS machine with:
vio -ivndf a:h
Now let's assume that you want to move a set of Vision indexed files to another machine, but you do not have any common media. You plan to use a network or modem-transfer to get the files to the target machine, but you have a problem because the indexed file format on the two machines is different. You can use vio to help you in this case by writing the archive to a disk file with this command:
vio -ovbl listfile > diskfile
Then you move "diskfile" to the target machine and use vio to create new indexed files in the correct format with this command:
vio -ivnd < diskfile