lever@linus.UUCP (lever) (05/13/89)
Question: I am looking for a PD tar utility that I can use with my digidata 2000 9-track tape machine with the least possible fiddling as I don't have much time to get this working. I tried simtel20's PDTAR.ARC.1 to no avail. Using both the TENEX option and the BINARY option from within FTP, pkxarc complains. Is there another location for PDTAR.ARC or perhaps a better source for easy source? Thanks in advance, Mark (lever@linus.uucp)
ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) (05/15/89)
In article <53178@linus.UUCP> lever@linus.UUCP (lever) writes: >Question: > >FTP, pkxarc complains. Is there another location for PDTAR.ARC or >perhaps a better source for easy source? There are probably several programs called pdtar floating about. I distribute one that has been tailored for **IX <==> MSDOS transfers. While it works fine for its intended purpose, it has not been tested with tape drives because I don't have a tape drive (except on a VAX, but there I already have tar). MAIL TO THE ADDRESS BELOW, NOT TO THE DEFAULT GIVEN BY THE NEWSREADER. Earl H. Kinmonth History Department University of California, Davis Davis, California 95616 916-752-1636 (2300-0800 PDT for FAX) 916-752-0776 (secretary) ucbvax!ucdavis!ucdked!cck (email) cc-dnet.ucdavis.edu [128.120.2.251] (request ucdked, login as guest)
roskos@ida.org (Eric Roskos) (05/17/89)
I also posted a PD tar about a year ago, which was a modification of John Gilmore's PD Tar. It had these features: - Worked interchangeably with Unix tar - Converted MS-DOS filenames to Unix filenames and vice versa - Would write multivolume tar archives on raw floppy disks - The multivolume tar archives were compatible with the Posix trial-use standard format for multivolume tar - The program could also be compiled to work under the Minix operating system with these same features - When tarring files on a DOS system, it would check the file extension and, if it was not one of a list of binary file extensions (you could specify via command-line switches which additional extensions were binary, besides the standard DOS ones), it would convert the file from DOS CR/LF format text files to Unix LF-only format text files To date I have not heard of anyone using this program, besides myself and a few people I gave copies to it, which is one of the reasons I no longer bother to post programs I write to the Usenet. However, if you can find it, you can probably get it to do what you want; John's code was very flexible, and the changes I made to make it work with DOS (adding the above features) were also device-independent. ---- Unix is a registered trademark of AT&T. -- Eric Roskos (roskos@CS.IDA.ORG or Roskos@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL)
george@rebel.UUCP (George M. Sipe) (05/19/89)
In article <967@csed-55.IDA.ORG> roskos@ida.org (Eric Roskos) writes: >I also posted a PD tar about a year ago, which was a modification of >John Gilmore's PD Tar. It had these features: ...<misc. features listed> > - When tarring files on a DOS system, it would check the file > extension and, if it was not one of a list of binary file > extensions (you could specify via command-line switches > which additional extensions were binary, besides the standard > DOS ones), it would convert the file from DOS CR/LF format > text files to Unix LF-only format text files >To date I have not heard of anyone using this program, besides myself and >a few people I gave copies to it, which is one of the reasons I no longer I use it. I've also extended it to handle a larger built-in set of extensions of binary files and to allow '?' in the extension (or did you do that? it's been so long). I probably made other changes, just can't remember. My list of extensions (taken from a new header file) is: "arc", "bin", "cal", "cfg", "com", "dif", "db?", "exe", "gif", "lib", "mac", "ndx", "obj", "00?", "ov?", "pak", "pic", "rbs", "rx?", "slk", "syl", "sys", "tar", "uue", "wk?", "xl?", "zip", and "zoo". Regards, George P.S. Thanks Eric for the original work. I for one appreciate it! P.P.S. I got my copy off the net. -- George M. Sipe, Phone: (404) 447-4731 537 Lakeshore Drive, Berkeley Lake, GA 30136-3035 UUCP: ...!{decvax,linus,rutgers}!gatech!rebel!george
jds@mimsy.UUCP (James da Silva) (05/21/89)
In article <967@csed-55.IDA.ORG> roskos@ida.org (Eric Roskos) writes: >I also posted a PD tar about a year ago, which was a modification of >John Gilmore's PD Tar. It had these features: > ... >To date I have not heard of anyone using this program, besides myself and >a few people I gave copies to it, which is one of the reasons I no longer >bother to post programs I write to the Usenet. Eric, I use your port of PDTAR on a daily basis, under both DOS and Minix. Thanks for the work you put into it! And of course, thanks to John Gilmore for the original. I use the Minix version for backing up my Minix hard disk partitions, and under DOS for transfers to Unix and Minix. Personally, I would have prefered that pdtar did NOT do CR/LF conversions; I often forget to tell it to turn off the conversion, and end up munging Minix executables and other random binaries. Still, I admit that I've grow used to the feature and now enjoy the convenience of not having to run files through a DOS-ifier. Thanks again, Jaime ........................................................................... : domain: jds@mimsy.umd.edu James da Silva : path: uunet!mimsy!jds