Xref: utzoo comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d:3076 comp.sys.ibm.pc:29018 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!rutgers!gatech!rebel!george From: george@rebel.UUCP (George M. Sipe) Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: PD Tar Utility Message-ID: <68266@rebel.UUCP> Date: 18 May 89 21:52:13 GMT References: <53178@linus.UUCP> <24426@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <967@csed-55.IDA.ORG> Reply-To: george@rebel.UUCP (George M. Sipe) Organization: sometimes Lines: 31 In article <967@csed-55.IDA.ORG> roskos@ida.org (Eric Roskos) writes: >I also posted a PD tar about a year ago, which was a modification of >John Gilmore's PD Tar. It had these 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 I use it. I've also extended it to handle a larger built-in set of extensions of binary files and to allow '?' in the extension (or did you do that? it's been so long). I probably made other changes, just can't remember. My list of extensions (taken from a new header file) is: "arc", "bin", "cal", "cfg", "com", "dif", "db?", "exe", "gif", "lib", "mac", "ndx", "obj", "00?", "ov?", "pak", "pic", "rbs", "rx?", "slk", "syl", "sys", "tar", "uue", "wk?", "xl?", "zip", and "zoo". Regards, George P.S. Thanks Eric for the original work. I for one appreciate it! P.P.S. I got my copy off the net. -- George M. Sipe, Phone: (404) 447-4731 537 Lakeshore Drive, Berkeley Lake, GA 30136-3035 UUCP: ...!{decvax,linus,rutgers}!gatech!rebel!george