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From: ked@garnet.berkeley.edu (Earl H. Kinmonth)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc,comp.sources.wanted
Subject: Re: Wanted: tar for IBM-PC
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Date: 18 Apr 89 14:43:58 GMT
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In article <438@oetl1.oetl.UUCP> alan@oetl.UUCP (Alan Strassberg) writes:
>In article <24161@beta.lanl.gov> dxxb@beta.lanl.gov (David W. Barts) writes:
>>
>>Does anyone have access to a public-domain tar program
>>for the IBM-PC?  (I have the source for a UNIX tar, but
>
>	Why not use pax (with the DOS diffs) posted to comp.sources.unix
>	fairly recently ? 

One good reason is that dos-pax does not work very well!  I have a version
of gnu-tar (original version) that has been modified to run under MSDOS.
It is essentially identical to the tar that comes with SCO Xenix and supports
Xenix multi-volume files.  Unlike dos-pax, it works with either DOS or **IX
floppies under either system.  The program is known to run properly under
SCO Xenix, Sun Unix, and MSDOS 3.3.

If you want a copy, send mail to the address in the signature below (not
the default news reply address) AND give me your address in ! format
relative to ucbvax.  If you want sources, say so.  Unless otherwise
requested I ship Zoo archives processed by uuencode.  I can also ftp
to you if you provide anonymous login and a writable directory.

PS:	I lost four pending requests with my last disk disaster.  If
	you have requested but not received, try again.

Earl H. Kinmonth
History Department
University of California, Davis
916-752-1636 (voice, fax [2300-0800 PDT])
916-752-0776 secretary

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