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- Article 1404 of comp.sys.amiga:
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- From: mwm@violet.berkeley.edu (Mike Meyer)
- Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
- Subject: Tarsplit.c & tar
- Message-ID: <2177@jade.BERKELEY.EDU>
- Date: 13 Jan 87 03:48:57 GMT
- Sender: usenet@jade.BERKELEY.EDU
- Reply-To: mwm@violet.berkeley.edu(Mike Meyer)
- Organization: University of California, Berkeley
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- Ok, here's the source to tarsplit.c. It's a straight port of the OS/9
- program that does the same thing. Major gotcha: tarsplit doesn't do
- name translation, so '.' and '..' don't work. For instance, you can't
- do "tar cf - ." on the Unix end and then take it apart on the Amiga,
- as "." isn't a recognized file name.
-
- Recomended useage: cd to the parent of the directory you want to
- download, and do:
-
- tar cbf 1 download.tar download_dir
-
- This will tar download_dir into download.tar. Setting the blocksize to
- 1 causes minimal wasted space in the image. I haven't tried
- compressing the result; gotta do that soon. After downloading it, cd
- to the place you want the directory to appear in, and do "tarsplit
- download.tar" (or whever you put it). For small files (*NOT* the mg
- sources!), putting things in ram: works fine.
-
- For those who don't want to compile it, or don't trust your compiler,
- I put the binary in the pub/amiga directory on ucbvax. Matt should
- feel free to delete it, though. I didn't uuencode it, and I didn't
- touch Matt's index.
-
- Note: This has not been tested under either Lattice 3.10, or any
- version of MANX. It's also the second posting, having been posted
- nearly a year ago; right after I did it.
-
- Finally, I've heard rumors of a PD tar. If I can find a copy, I'll
- probably try and post it, but not do the port.
-
- <mike
-
- P.S. - since he doesn't mention it in the file, I'll do it here. The
- original OS/9 version of this was written by James Jones (the hacker
- from Mars :-). James can currently be found as jejones@mcrware.UUCP.
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