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Article #39779Re: Can I make DOS-compiled pax or pdtar write RAW cpio or tar floppies?
From: Harold G. Walters
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1989 22:47
Date: Wed, 13 Dec 1989 22:47
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PAX with the MSDOS patches I posted to comp.sources.bugs does RAW nonfilesystem floppy reads and writes for compatability with UNIX. It also can use the MSDOS filesystem. It is also free. For those of you who don't know PAX groks BOTH tar and cpio. EXE's posted to comp.binaries.ibm.pc available from simtel20 available via anonymous ftp from 192.31.83.2 vms.ucc.okstate.edu SRC pax source posted in comp.sources.unix (or comp.sources.misc??) patches to pax by the author in comp.sources.bugs my MSDOS patches in comp.sources.bugs already patched source from 192.31.83.2 vms.ucc.okstate.edu with ftp PAX v2.0 is in currently in beta test and will be posted next year. -- Harold G. Walters walters@1.ce.okstate.edu School of Civil Engineering okstate!oksce1!walters Oklahoma State University "If all you have is a hammer, Stillwater, OK 74078 everything looks like a nail".
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!rutgers!okstate!oksce1!walters From: walters@oksce1.okstate.edu (Harold G. Walters) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Can I make DOS-compiled pax or pdtar write RAW cpio or tar floppies? Summary: Where to get PAX that does RAW floppies Keywords: MS-DOS, pax, pdtar, tar, cpio Message-ID: <273@oksce1.okstate.edu> Date: 13 Dec 89 22:47:45 GMT References: <1649@ctisbv.cti-software.nl> <1989Dec11.175212.5535@cadre.dsl.pitt.edu> Organization: Oklahoma State Univ., Stillwater Lines: 25