ART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft) (07/06/90)
I downloaded dbmaster and it seems pretty nice. However, at 539 blocks, the shrinkit archive is too large to be of much use to anyone without a large ram disk or 3.5" or hard drive. The docs say the program can be used with 2 5.25" disks, but doesn't give any info on how the files should be split up for that. I'd like to repack the whole thing in smaller .shk files for this purpose before I upload it anywhere. Does anyone know the breakdown for 5.25" disks?
pnakada@oracle.com (Paul Nakada) (07/06/90)
In article <90186.150319ART100@psuvm.psu.edu> ART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft) writes:
I downloaded dbmaster and it seems pretty nice. However, at
539 blocks, the shrinkit archive is too large to be of much
use to anyone without a large ram disk or 3.5" or hard drive.
The docs say the program can be used with 2 5.25" disks, but
doesn't give any info on how the files should be split up
for that. I'd like to repack the whole thing in smaller .shk files
for this purpose before I upload it anywhere. Does anyone know
the breakdown for 5.25" disks?
I'd just like to add that this is where Andy McFadden's NuLib UNIX
archiver is a big win. It allows one to use the resources of a much
larger machine to maniuplate/massage archives into a more palatable
form, (i.e. remove all unnecessary printer drivers from the archive,
and split the archive in two for floppy use)...
So for Andy's case, has anyone tried building Nulib on a VMS platform?
Most of the code looks pretty portable...
-Paul Nakada
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Paul Nakada | Oracle Corporation | pnakada@oracle.comART100@psuvm.psu.edu (Andy Tefft) (07/10/90)
<PNAKADA.90Jul6094712@pnakada.oracle.com> Actually, I do intend to use nulib for this purpose. I just recently fixed it to compile on a friendly local Xenix box which has a nice 9600 baud modem and term software so I can call the bbs up from it and zip the files across. It would be nice to have nulib work on this vm (it's not vms) system (an IBM 3090) but EBCDIC character sets make the task rather formidable. Maybe it'll have to wait till we're running AIX :-) At any rate, anyone who wants to compile nulib on a 386 Xenix system, until Andy incorporates the #ifdefs, I'll be happy to describe the necessary changes (one include file, one extra library, and a short rename() function). Just send mail. art100@psuvm.psu.edu