thorstad@wooglin.scc.com (Brian Thorstad) (01/07/89)
Sun wrote a special version of tar for the RoadRunner. The "bar" command (does anyone know what it stands for?) should suit your needs. It does everything that tar does plus a few things: 1) spans output volumes (floppy only pre 4.0.1) 2) allows compression of files (via pack) 3) and some other things I can't remember. Be warned, the bar commands created by Snap are buggy. rtfm, then write your own. Brian Thorstad (thorstad@wooglin.scc.com)
jim@applix.UUCP (Jim Morton) (01/18/89)
thorstad@wooglin.scc.com (Brian Thorstad) writes: > Sun wrote a special version of tar for the RoadRunner. The "bar" command > (floppy only pre 4.0.1) 2) allows compression of files (via pack) 3) and ^^^^^^^^^ actually the "bar -Z" compression is not via pack(1) but by compress(1) which uses the "Lempel-Ziv" compression coding method, FAR superior to pack ("Huffman coding") or compact ("Adaptive Huffman coding"). Sun did a nice job with bar, I regularly get around 3 meg of material on a 1.44 meg floppy using bar -Z. -- Jim Morton, APPLiX Inc., Westboro, MA UUCP: ...harvard!m2c!applix!jim jim@applix.m2c.org