info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (11/17/84)
From: Bakin@MIT-MULTICS.ARPA Is there a program for VAX/VMS that will read Unix TAR tapes (specifically, Berkeley 4.2)? -- Thanks, Dave Bakin (Bakin -at mit-multics)
info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (11/17/84)
From: sasaki@harvard.ARPA (Marty Sasaki)
Do you have a UNIX license for the VMS machine? We had a student
convert tar to run on VMS. The alternative, which was also written
here is a program that will read and write VMS (ANSI) text files.
Marty Sasaki
sasaki@harvard.{arpa,uucp}
617-495-1270info-vax@ucbvax.ARPA (11/19/84)
From: Jerry Leichter <Leichter@YALE.ARPA>
Is there a program for VAX/VMS that will read Unix TAR tapes (specifically,
Berkeley 4.2)? -- Thanks, Dave Bakin (Bakin -at mit-multics)
A couple of programs to do this, written by Martin Minow and Jim Burrows, are
part of the DECUS C distribution. I have copies and can mail them to you if
you like. You will need access to both VAX BASIC and VAX C compilers to
compile them.
The authors comment in the code that they have never used the programs without
changing them in some way. That's been my experience, too. They work, but
they have not been designed to deal with all the possible things you will find
on a tar tape. (For example, I recently had to read a tar tape on which every
file name was stored with a leading "../". This required munging the program
slightly to deal with this properly in forming a VMS file name.) Because of
this, there is little point in sending just .EXE files.
-- Jerry
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