marc@skypod.uucp (Marc Fournier) (05/16/91)
Hi Folks...again, Another of my many questions...I just FTPed a bunch of stuff from plains.nodak.edu (not BITFTP either!) and am confused about some of the files. I know that .Z is a compressed file and know how to uncompress it. I also know that a .tar file is an archived file, but I haven't seen tar anywhere in Minix...I am quite familiar with it on an AT&T SV though. Does ar do the same thing? Or do I have to find tar for minix? Thanks alot for the help... -- | Marc G. Fournier (416) 250-8589 | Haven't thought of anything | | Toronto, Ontario | real witty to say here! | | uucp: marc@skypod.uucp --------- And probably... | | Bitnet: marc%skypod@ugw.utcs.utoronto.ca | never will! |
klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte) (05/17/91)
There is a tar(1) in the minix distribution. This version should be good
enough for extraction of any tar files found on ftp archives.
For backup purposes, especially if you are on 64+64k minix-PC, you might
want to have PAX. This is in the beta-minix pipeline.
Klamer
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Klamer Schutte
Faculty of electrical engineering -- University of Twente, The Netherlands
klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl {backbone}!mcsun!mi.eltn.utwente.nl!klamerralf@ptavv.ka.sub.org (Ralf Wenk) (05/20/91)
In article <klamer.674467079@mi.eltn.utwente.nl> klamer@mi.eltn.utwente.nl (Klamer Schutte) writes: > For backup purposes, especially if you are on 64+64k minix-PC, you might > want to have PAX. This is in the beta-minix pipeline. I am using a program called pax since it was posted in comp.sources.unix. It writes and reads PAX-, tar- and cpio-archives. If mine is the same pax as the one in the beta-minix pipeline the work is done long ago. -- -- Ralf Wenk -- ralf@ptavv.ka.sub.org