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From: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
Newsgroups: comp.os.msdos.apps
Subject: Re: archiving under MSDOS and UNIX
Keywords: arichive, Unix, MSDOS
Message-ID: <1990Dec20.233943.3346@sj.ate.slb.com>
Date: 20 Dec 90 23:39:43 GMT
References: <11784@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> <940@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz>
Reply-To: poffen@sj.ate.slb.com (Russ Poffenberger)
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In article <940@macuni.mqcc.mq.oz> mallsop@sunb.mqcc.mq.oz.au (Mark Allsop) writes:
>In article <11784@ccncsu.ColoState.EDU> georgm@danae.atmos.colostate.edu (Georg Mayr) writes:
>>My problem:
>>I need to archive files under UNIX, but then transfer the archive to MSDOS
>>and be able to uncompress it there.
>>
>>
>>My question:
>>
>>Are there programs that produce archives that are compatible for both
>>operating systems (i.e. can handle the difference between line-feed under
>>UNIX and line-feed+carriage return in MSDOS, something that eg ZOO cannot
>>do - at least not the version I got).
>>
>
>I'm sorry to delete stuff- my mailer won't let anything out unless there is
>more new than old text.
>
>The TAR program is exactly what you need.  GNUTAR works very well on MSDOS and
>reads and writes UNIX tar files without any problems I've found yet.  It will
>restore the entire directory structure without a problem.  It handles invalid
>DOS names.
>
>I'd tell you where to get it, but I've lost the GNU ftp site name.  If anyone
>can shed light on this.......
>
>Seasons greetings,
>+Mark.

The entire MS-DOS gnuish project is being archived at ocf.berkeley.edu.

Unfortunately it seems to not be reachable from my site right now.

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