nikhil@dtrc.dt.navy.mil (Nikhil Parekh) (12/24/90)
Does anyone know of a way to read and write unix tar or cpio format tapes (1/4" QIC-02) on a machine running dos (just dos not dos under unix)? Thanks. Nikhil M. Parekh nikhil@dtrc.dtnet.navy.mil Nikhil M. Parekh nikhil@dtrc.dtnet.navy.mil
feustel@netcom.UUCP (David Feustel) (12/26/90)
The MKS Toolkit includes a TAR command which can be used to read unix tar files. The command will only read from /dev/mt0 so to use the command, create a /dev directory and mv your tar file to /dev/mt0. Kludgy, but it works. I haven't figured out how to use this command to write a tar file yet. -- David Feustel, 1930 Curdes Ave, Fort Wayne, IN 46805, (219) 482-9631 EMAIL: netcom.uucp
thad@cup.portal.com (Thad P Floryan) (12/26/90)
nikhil@dtrc.dt.navy.mil (Nikhil Parekh) in <5091@oasys.dt.navy.mil> writes:
Does anyone know of a way to read and write unix tar or cpio
format tapes (1/4" QIC-02) on a machine running dos (just
dos not dos under unix)?
Though I haven't tried this personally (no "DOS" machines here :-), there
is/was a "pax2exe" posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc earlier this year; most
likely it is archived at wsmr-simtel20.army.mil (IP 26.2.0.74). "Pax" is
the POSIX "US Tar" replacement for cpio and tar and is upward compatible
with both; on a UNIX system "tar" and "cpio" can be linked to "pax" and
the program will do the right thing based on the name by which it was invoked.
Since I'm a packrat and collect references to things that "may" someday
be useful, I actually found the header of the original "pax2exe" posting;
hope the attached helps! It's no longer online here so don't ask me to
send you a copy. I "believe" the "2" in "pax2exe" means version 2, but
the sources for version 1.2 can be found on uunet.uu.net; I don't know where
the sources for version 2 (if such it is) are located.
Thad Floryan [ thad@cup.portal.com (OR) ..!sun!portal!cup.portal.com!thad ]
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In article <19397@netcom.UUCP> feustel@netcom.UUCP (David Feustel) writes: >The MKS Toolkit includes a TAR command which can be used to read unix >tar files. The command will only read from /dev/mt0 so to use the >command, create a /dev directory and mv your tar file to /dev/mt0. >Kludgy, but it works. You should be able use the command: tar xf file.tar >I haven't figured out how to use this command to write a tar file yet. Try: tar cf file.tar file1 file2 file3 ... or: tar cf file.tar dir1 dir2 dir3 ... -- Andy Toy, Mortice Kern Systems Inc., Internet: andy@mks.com 35 King Street North, Waterloo, UUCP: uunet!watmath!mks!andy Ontario, CANADA N2J 2W9 Phone: 519-884-2251 FAX: 519-884-8861