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Requirements

KBACKUP requires some other software to be installed on your system. However, most of them should be available on any properly installed system. If you are using a Slackware--based LINUX , all you need is to install  afio(1) on your machine.

The programs required by KBACKUP are:

In fact, you do not need both,  tar(1) and  afio(1) . KBACKUP can use either of them to handle its archives. Afio is strongly recommended. For handling encrypted archives  , you should get  afio(1) version 2.4.2 or newer.

In the file  paths , you can set environment variables pointing to the various programs. Just in case the standard settings should not work for you.

KBACKUP should run with any Bourne Shell ( sh(1) ) compatible shell. However, I have mainly tested it using the Bourne-Again Shell ( bash(1) ), therefore I cannot guarantee that it will work with others, but I do not see any problems. Especially, it appears to be working well with the rather small  ash(1) shell, which is of interest for putting it onto boot disks.



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KBackup development
Wed Mar 27 23:01:46 GMT+0100 1996