walters@oksce1.okstate.edu (Harold G. Walters) (12/20/89)
Archive-name: pax/msdos-beta
Original-posting-by: walters@oksce1.okstate.edu (Harold G. Walters)
Original-subject: pax, tar, cpio for msdos - new beta version
Archive-site: vms.ucc.okstate.edu [0.0.0.0]
Reposted-by: emv@math.lsa.umich.edu (Edward Vielmetti)
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 beta.
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 and pax-as-cpio 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. It all works as far as I can tell.
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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