rother@seismo.UUCP (Robert Rother) (03/11/84)
[Obligatory Non-blank first line] I have some files that have been compressed with the older (?) UNIX (tm) command pack. Unfortunatly these files are residing on a 4.2 BSD Vax that doesn't have the utility to unpack these. Are the sources for these commands propietary? If not could someone please mail me a pointer to where I can get them. Thanks, Robert Rother ARPA: (ROTHER@SEISMO) UUCP: seismo!rother
dan@rna.UUCP (03/11/84)
Hi, re: old pack/unpack on 4.2BSD Unfortunately there are about a half dozen "old pack"'s. I have managed to decode a few and can send you a pcat that can regenerate packed files of a few of these formats. For starters, what is the leading 16bit word of the packed files (the magic number) and what is the ending suffix (.p or .z) ? Let me know what you're interested in. Cheers, Dan Ts'o ...cmcl2!rna!dan
johnl@haddock.UUCP (03/16/84)
#R:seismo:-67300:haddock:16800009:000:445 haddock!johnl Mar 15 14:32:00 1984 The System III version of unpack and pcat has code for unpacking old packed files lurking within, surrounded with "#ifdef pdp11" or the like. For it to work on a 32 bit machine, some ints in the old unpacking code have to be changed to shorts, but it's no big deal. You have to rename the old packed files from *.p to *.z, but unpack is smart enough to figure out what kind of packed file it is and unpack it correctly. John Levine, ima!johnl