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From: roskos@csed-1.IDA.ORG (Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: Re: Wild-card for DOSREAD and DOSWRITE?
Message-ID: <422@csed-47.csed-1.IDA.ORG>
Date: 28 Jul 88 13:57:32 GMT
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Organization: IDA, Alexandria, VA
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>I wanted to know whether there was a way to use (or simulate)
>wild-card in DOSREAD and DOSWRITE.  It becomes a pain to copy all the
>files individually to minix from DOS.

I do this by tarring everything onto a multivolume tar floppy.  I posted
sources & executables for this tar* in comp.binaries.ibm.pc about a month
ago.  You can transfer arbitrarily large directory trees between Dos and
Minix this way (it converts between CRLF and LF too).  Only works with 360K
floppy at present though since I don't have a 1.2M floppy (one is on order,
though) & so there was a bug in the 1.2M archive code for DOS.  See the
man page from the comp.binaries.ibm.pc posting for instructions.

AST's tar should work on the Minix side, though I haven't tried it with
that tar -- he used that one instead because it is MUCH more compact than
PD-tar (the sources).

*A port of John Gilmore's PD-Tar to DOS and Minix, with multivolume floppy
 support and CR/LF & filename conversion added.  The only real changes are
 for DOS (unless you add some nonstandard changes to Minix), so the current
 Minix tar should be compatible with that one on the Minix side.
-- 
Eric Roskos, IDA (csed-1!roskos or Roskos@DOCKMASTER.ARPA)

	"See how God with his lightning always smites the bigger
	 animals, and will not suffer them to wax insolent ..." 
				--Artabanis, adv. to Xerxes