john@pyrnj.uucp (John Kurzman) (08/31/90)
We missed the tar for the PC that has been mentioned as having recently been in comp.binaries.ibm.pc. Could someone email it to me? Also if there is a version of UNIX compress for the PC, that would help to, as I am trying to download DIRECTORIES of files from the UNIX machine to the DOS machine using KERMIT (a file at a time). If you have any other suggestion as to how to move a DIRECTORY at a time rather than a file at a time other than transferring compressed tar'red files, please let me know.
CORCORAN@MAINE.BITNET (John Corcoran) (09/01/90)
In article <13969@pyrnj.uucp>, john@pyrnj.uucp (John Kurzman) says: > >We missed the tar for the PC that has been mentioned as having >recently been in comp.binaries.ibm.pc. Could someone email it >to me? So did I. Could you include me when you mail it out? Thanks J. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Corcoran@maine.maine.EDU = Corcoran@Maine.bitnet or Corcoran@portland.maine.EDU = Corcoran@Portland.bitnet are: John Corcoran, Department of Philosophy, University of Southern Maine 96 Falmouth Street, Portland, Maine 04103 - 207-780-4226
royce@scor_az.resp-sci.arizona.edu (Royce Robbins) (09/03/90)
Getting tar for the PC: Sun Microsystems makes a product called PC-NFS which allows PCs to act as workstations (parasites) to UNIX or VMS hosts that act as NFS servers. Works real slick over thinwire, even works at up to 9600 baud over serial lines. You could connect your PC to your UNIX host this way then just use XCOPY to copy an entire UNIX directory hierarchy to a PC. I've done this even with VMS machines, so I know it works. 'Course it does mean you have to be in proximity to your host and the hardware/software will be about $400. Sun also has something called PC-Lifeline which has a windowed mailer (POP2 and SMNP) AND a PC implementation of tar they use for backup. Hope this helps. (No I have no connection with Sun!!) --Royce Robbins Div. Resp. Sciences UofArizona