Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!sdd.hp.com!hplabs!otter.hpl.hp.com!hpltoad!cdollin!kers From: kers@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Chris Dollin) Newsgroups: comp.sys.acorn Subject: Re: TAR & Disk Corruption. Message-ID: Date: 19 Jun 91 14:22:29 GMT References: Sender: news@hplb.hpl.hp.com (Usenet News Administrator) Distribution: comp Organization: Hewlett-Packard Laboratories, Bristol, UK. Lines: 19 In-Reply-To: fl@tools.uucp's message of 19 Jun 91 07:30:40 GMT Nntp-Posting-Host: cdollin.hpl.hp.com Frank Lancaster says: I released the tar programme into the public domain because I thought it a very useful utility. But as people who have some kind of trouble using it or with their hard disc always seem to see the fault in the programme I will now stop supporting it. I am fed up! I sympathise with you, Frank. But as a last gasp of support could you release the sources - then at least those of us prepared to program could continue to get the benefit. [I don't use tar for backup [yet]; I use it for moving stuff between my Arc and my HP machine at work, using !PCDir to do the actual file copying ...] -- Regards, "I know three kinds: hot, cool, and 'what time does the tune start?'". Kers [The Beiderbeck Connection]