kevin@kosman.UUCP (Kevin O'Gorman) (06/04/88)
I keep thinking of more things to do than there is time to do them (so what's new), and here's one that has "almost" gotten to the top of the stack a bunch of times. Now I want to know if anyone else has done it. A while ago there was a thing posted to one of the comp.sources groups that was a cpio clone called 'afio'. Has anyone made this work on the UNIX PC? Has anyone added the stuff for multiple floppies on output? Thus far, it would be no better than what we've already got, but here's the point: has anyone given it the option to pipe the output through compress before sending it out? Normally, one would build the pipe using the shell, but then you can't get the results onto multiple floppies. As an alternate, has anyone written a 'cat' clone that would send stuff to multiple floppies? Then I could build the pipeline cpio|compress|acat to do the work.
root@rocky.cs.wisc.edu.CS.WISC.EDU (Charlie Root) (06/08/88)
I am not sure about cpio style archive programs, but I have developed a version of the POSIX standard tar program released to comp.sources.unix about 3-5 months ago. It works quite well -- we use it to backup our 3B15, and some of the routines have been integrated from the backup program we use to backup the rest of our center. This program does incorporate piping through compress AND multiple volume control. (Admittedly, you would need to tweek the parameters to work with a floppy.) Since it is quite a large program (compiles to >200K), sharing it qould require over 15 mail messages. I will offer it to all people with ARPA acces, and with enough coercing, I could post it to unix-pc.sources. Jonathan Sadler Computing Systems Labratory (CSL) Computer Sciences Department University of Wisconsin - Madison