phil@amdcad.AMD.COM (Phil Ngai) (06/22/88)
There was a lot of interest in the Western Digital Ethernet card software. There were also several offers to archive on an ARPAnet site. However, that does not help the uucp people. I asked uunet if they would archive but have received no answer yet. Therefore I will be posting the information. It was originally over 900K but that included some SCSI stuff. The Ethernet stuff was around 400K. After compression, it's about 250K. As I have commented elsewhere, I think the arc series of programs suck because they don't handle hierarchical filesystems. This WD data is a case in point. Since there has been a PD PC tar posted, I felt free to use tar. Briefly, I tared it and then used pkarc to compress it. Finally, I used a PC uuencode to uuencode and split it up. There are 6 files. I will post one or two per day, USENIX and work permitting. Here's what I did. I have PC-NFS linking my PC and my Sun so I am not as conscious of up/download time as 1200 baud modem users might be, but I think the final result can be done with only one transfer if you have a PC tar. (on Sun) tar cf wdpost.tar wdpost (on PC) pkarc -a wdpost.arc wdpost.tar (on PC) uuencode wdpost.arc Here is what I think you would do to receive it: download 6 *.uue files with kermit or whatever uudecode wdpost pkxarc wdpost tar xf wdpost.tar -- I speak for myself, not the company. Phil Ngai, {ucbvax,decwrl,allegra}!amdcad!phil or phil@amd.com