[comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d] pax, tar, cpio beta again

walters@oksce1.okstate.edu (Harold G. Walters) (01/05/90)

There were network problems at vms.ucc.okstate.edu (192.31.83.2)
over the holidays that have been fixed.  Those of you who tried to get
pax2exebeta.arc and couldn't try again.  It has also been placed
on wuarchive.wustl.edu (128.252.135.4) in ~/pub/pax2exebeta.arc,
although it may get moved into some other directory.

For those of you who want the latest and greatest version of PAX for
MSDOS, the exe, readme, and man pages, are available for anonymous ftp from
192.31.83.2 vms.ucc.okstate.edu in the file pax2exebeta.arc
This version now lets you specify the floppy density for raw
UN*X type reads/writes on the command line.  No more floppy swapping!!
From the readme.1st file...
    
    This is a beta test version of the MSDOS version of PAX version 2.
    See the README file and the man pages for more information on how to run
    PAX, TAR, and CPIO.
    
    The beta test version has been tested as pax-as-tar on PCDOS 3.1 on
    low and high density floppies.  If you test it on other hardware or
    versions of DOS drop me some e-mail.  If you have other problems
    drop me some e-mail as well.
    
    Be sure to use a blocking factor of 20 with pax-as-tar and B with
    pax-as-cpio for best performance.

    

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