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From: roskos@csed-1.IDA.ORG (Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Wanted: pdtar
Message-ID: <357@csed-47.csed-1.IDA.ORG>
Date: 23 May 88 17:03:45 GMT
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>Anyway, since a good tar would be very useful to have, it would be nice
>for us who aren't developing under MS/Turbo/Aztec C if someone would offer
>the uuencode binary of pdtar for the benefit of us Minix-only types.

For about the 10th time... I posted a uuencoded binary of a much-enhanced
pdtar to this group a few months ago.  Check your Minix archives.  It
compiles and runs under both DOS and Minix, supports multivolume archives
(i.e., you can dump your whole hard disk to a series of formatted floppy
disks, similar to some of the DOS backup utilities available), and the
multivolume archives are readable under both DOS and Minix.  It also does
various kinds of conversions to make the archives created under DOS be
readable under Unix and Minix, and vice versa.  It also has an undocumented
feature to allow you to build a complete Minix filesystem (including special
files) from an archive, sort of the way some Unix distributions are done
nowadays; although you have to make a modification to the Minix fs to make
this work, so I didn't document it.

I am currently in the process of submitting the sources and DOS executable
of this program to Rahul Dhesi for inclusion in comp.binaries.ibm.pc, so if
you don't have it, you can get it there.  It compiles fine with the 1.1
Minix compiler; I don't have the 1.2 one from Unipress.  I didn't cross-compile
this one for Minix, I compiled it with the standard Minix compiler!!  I
am posting it via comp.binaries.ibm.pc due to the lack of response from
the Minix user community in the last posting of it to this group, and so
that it will be archived properly for others to retrieve in the future.
-- 
Eric Roskos, IDA (...daitc!csed-1!roskos, or csed-1!roskos@DAITC.ARPA, or
		     Roskos@DOCKMASTER.ARPA)

"To tell you the truth, I can't tell what most of these buttons are for."
"And, it talks like my car.  I don't like that."  -- Passengers heard commenting
                                        on an "ergonomically designed" elevator.