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From: rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de (Kai-Uwe Rommel)
Newsgroups: comp.binaries.ibm.pc.d,comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: pax, tar, cpio for msdos - new beta version
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Date: 8 Jan 90 10:04:40 GMT
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I got the beta version of pax 2.0 from Harold Walters. After removing
some bugs I found it working well.

It still contains this somewhat complicated DOS dio library for direct
disk access to tar and cpio archives on Unix disks. It still requires a
DOS DIR on a DOS disk with the same density before access to the Unix
disks. 

I removed the dio library and wrote my own which automatically detects
the disk density and format. It allows even access to 720k 80 track
disks on a 1200k drive. Also, it runs on OS/2 protected mode too !

I created a bound version which runs on both OS/2 protected mode and DOS
real mode operating systems with direct floppy disk access.

If there is enough interest, I could send it to Rahul Dhesi for posting
on comp.binaries.ibm.pc (should I include sources ?).

Note: (not related to pax)
I would like to see more sources included with the binaries on c.b.i.pc
because many people (like me) would like to port them to other systems
or enhance them for special needs.

Kai Uwe Rommel
Munich

rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de