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- I ported GNU tar to MS-DOS and OS/2. There already was a MS-DOS port
- included but it was VERY incomplete and had many bugs. I added a direct
- disk interface which allows to read directly Unix floppy disks.
- Use the -0 and -1 options for the first and second floppy drive or the
- special filenames "0:" and "1:" together with -f.
-
- Examples:
- tar tv0
- tar -cv -1 .
- tar tvf 0:
- and so on
-
- Note:
- For using with OS/2 protected mode, place DISKACC.DLL somewhere into a
- directory listed in your LIBPATH. The .EXE file is the SAME for MS-DOS and
- OS/2 protected mode.
-
- Please report bugs and problems to me.
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
- Munich
- rommel@lan.informatik.tu-muenchen.dbp.de
-
- PS:
- Use plain tex for formatting the manual, tar.tex then includes the texinfo
- macro library itself.
-
- ---------
- October 1990:
-
- While adapting the port to version 1.09 I added HPFS support for long
- filenames and case preserving. But for extraction onto a FAT disk,
- names are still translated (this code was enhanced).
-
- Kai Uwe Rommel
-
- ---------
- New files:
- ----------
-
- readme.1st this file
- patches.os2 apply with patch and -l option
- makefile makefile for DOS & OS/2 version (old one is makefile.std)
- dir.h unix directory routines
- dir_os2.c "
- diskacc/*.* physical disk access routines (DLL + API simulation)
- disktape.c "tape on a disk" simulation instead of remote tapes support
- tar.cs compiler shell script
- tar.def module definition file
- tar.bad list of protect-only calls for BIND
- cwild.c better command line expansion
- glob.c "
- isfat.c FAT/HPFS detection
- dosname.c file name translation for FAT
-