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From: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
Newsgroups: comp.sources.d
Subject: Re: GNU tar
Message-ID: <7388@chinet.chi.il.us>
Date: 6 Jan 89 21:11:54 GMT
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Reply-To: les@chinet.chi.il.us (Leslie Mikesell)
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In article <3438@ucdavis.ucdavis.edu> kinmonthprep@deneb.ucdavis.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth) writes:
>
>I have a total rewrite of the first GNU tar that includes directory
>routines for V7 (same as Sys III ?), 4.? BSD, and MSDOS. It runs under
>MSDOS 3.x, SCO Xenix, 4.3 BSD, etc.
>
>A PD version of cpio has been posted, but I have not tried it. I gave
>up on cpio (despite the somewhat higher storage density) because it is
>much, much harder to recover damaged cpio archives than it is tar
>archives. Also, most versions of cpio do not recognize output device
>size limitations.

I want to use the native sysVr3 opendir(),readdir(),mkdir() etc. Probably
trivial but I thought I'd ask first.  The anti-SysV bias is a little thick
even by GNU standards.

The "afio" program posted awhile back was able to recover a partially
damaged archive.  I would like to see the two programs merged with a
few other things added, like per-file compression, ability to store a
directory in another file, output to a list of devices, etc.

Les Mikesell