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From: scott@labtam.labtam.oz (Scott Colwell)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.apollo
Subject: Re: File Compression on Mentor Graphics Files
Message-ID: <6009@labtam.labtam.oz>
Date: 26 Feb 91 00:47:29 GMT
References: <707@tron.UUCP>
Organization: Labtam Australia, Melbourne, Australia
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rtaylor@tron.UUCP (Randy Taylor) writes:
>Does anyone out there have a file compressor package that works with
>Mentor Graphics files ?
>....... The problem
>with them is that they both decompress the files into type "unstruct"
>instead of types "hdru" or "rec", as appropriate. This makes the 
>decompressed files unuseable by Mentor Graphics software packages.

Try

$ wbak blah..blah.. -stdout | compress

Don't try tar or cpio because Mentor use symbolic links where the
value of the symbolic link is not the actual file but is the version
number that must be appended to the name of the link.  When tar or cpio
try to stat the file through the symbolic link, it gets an error and does
not include the link in the archive.
-- 
Scott Colwell
Senior Design Engineer
Labtam Australia		net:	scott@labtam.oz.au
Melbourne, Australia 		phone:	+61-3-587-1444


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