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From: roskos@ida.org (Eric Roskos)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PD Tar Utility
Message-ID: <967@csed-55.IDA.ORG>
Date: 17 May 89 14:09:31 GMT
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Organization: IDA, Alexandria, VA
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I also posted a PD tar about a year ago, which was a modification of
John Gilmore's PD Tar.  It had these features:

	- Worked interchangeably with Unix tar
	- Converted MS-DOS filenames to Unix filenames and vice versa
	- Would write multivolume tar archives on raw floppy disks
	- The multivolume tar archives were compatible with the Posix
	  trial-use standard format for multivolume tar
	- The program could also be compiled to work under the Minix
	  operating system with these same features
	- When tarring files on a DOS system, it would check the file
	  extension and, if it was not one of a list of binary file
	  extensions (you could specify via command-line switches
	  which additional extensions were binary, besides the standard
	  DOS ones), it would convert the file from DOS CR/LF format
	  text files to Unix LF-only format text files

To date I have not heard of anyone using this program, besides myself and
a few people I gave copies to it, which is one of the reasons I no longer
bother to post programs I write to the Usenet.  However, if you can find
it, you can probably get it to do what you want; John's code was very
flexible, and the changes I made to make it work with DOS (adding the
above features) were also device-independent.

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Eric Roskos (roskos@CS.IDA.ORG or Roskos@DOCKMASTER.NCSC.MIL)