Re: .TAR compress/decompressor wanted for PC

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From: Roy M. Silvernail
Date: Mon, 05 Mar 1990 11:24

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In article <8431@cg-atla.agfa.com>, fredex@cg-atla.agfa.com (Fred Smith) writes:
> 
> A program named PAX was posted to c.b.i.p. recently (I think I saw
> a note from the moderator since then about a newer one coming soon).
> this program supposedly provides the functionality of both tar and cpio
> for PC's. I grabbed it but haven't tried it yet, so I can't
> report on it myself.

I just finished trying PAX out on a tarfile fromanother Unix system...
It works just fine at extracting. Now, if I could work up a way for tar
to prompt for replacement filenames... those Unix names just don't fit
sometimes, and truncating to 8 characters isn't always the best
solution.

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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!utzoo!attcan!uunet!comcon!roy
From: roy@comcon.UUCP (Roy M. Silvernail)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: .TAR compress/decompressor wanted for PC
Summary: PAX works!
Message-ID: <347@comcon.UUCP>
Date: 5 Mar 90 11:24:20 GMT
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