[comp.unix.xenix] gnu tar reads xenix disks under msdos

cck@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) (09/14/88)

I have a modified version of GNU (pd) tar that will read SCO Xenix 286
disks under MSDOS. This version takes the straight Xenix disks, not
converted versions made with dosformat/doscp.

Although the program is at a fully usable level and allows me to
transfer files from Xenix to MSDOS without a conversion stage and
without having to maintain two sets of disks in different formats, it
could use a more thorough exercising. Of course none of the weak areas
are in my code. -:)

If anyone would like a copy to play with, please make a request to one
of the addresses below. Please provide your own return e-mail address
in uucp form, if possible. I can supply either the source codes (in
shar format) or the executable (uuencode format) or both. The source
codes are fairly specific to Borland's Turbo C version 1.0.

If you can accept compressed files, please so indicate.  I have
zoo, arc, pack, and compress.

Earl H. Kinmonth
History Department
University of California, Davis
Davis, California
95616 916-752-1636/0776

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