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From: Leisner.Henr@xerox.com (Marty)
Newsgroups: comp.os.minix
Subject: how to un-archive Minix archives on sun
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Date: 15 Apr 89 19:58:24 GMT
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I'm trying to move distribution disks onto a sun386i.

I'm going to try reading an image of the disk onto dos, ftping onto the sun
and then running readfs.

I've been able to readfs onto ms/dos, but I lose the last few letters of
the file names and the file permissions, etc.

So I got some uncompressed archives from the distribution disks onto the
sun, ran
file *.a and got:
comm1.a:        old archive
comm2.a:        old archive
comm3.a:        old archive

The suns ar won't touch them.

So I figure, "let's get the minix ar.  I've been able to port it to dos
pretty painlessly to DOS."

So I tried both gnu C v1.33 and Sun C.

Turns out they both won't want to align this structure the way it seems to
need to be aligned:
struct ar_hdr {
        char ar_name[14];
        long ar_date;           /* not Intel format */
        char ar_uid;
        char ar_gid;
        int ar_mode;
        long ar_size;           /* not Intel format */
};

Anyone have a working V7 ar for the sun?  Also what's a good way of
handling the structure alignment problems between various C
compilers/processors.

Help!!!

marty
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