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From: jds@mimsy.UUCP (James da Silva)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: PD Tar Utility
Message-ID: <17651@mimsy.UUCP>
Date: 21 May 89 15:09:11 GMT
References: <53178@linus.UUCP> <24426@agate.BERKELEY.EDU> <967@csed-55.IDA.ORG>
Reply-To: jds@mimsy.umd.edu.UUCP (James da Silva)
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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:
> ...
>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. 

Eric,

I use your port of PDTAR on a daily basis, under both DOS and Minix.
Thanks for the work you put into it!  And of course, thanks to John
Gilmore for the original.  I use the Minix version for backing up my
Minix hard disk partitions, and under DOS for transfers to Unix and
Minix.

Personally, I would have prefered that pdtar did NOT do CR/LF
conversions; I often forget to tell it to turn off the conversion, and
end up munging Minix executables and other random binaries.  Still, I
admit that I've grow used to the feature and now enjoy the convenience
of not having to run files through a DOS-ifier.

Thanks again,
Jaime
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