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- Reply-To: jsdy@hadron.uucp (Joseph S. D. Yao)
-
- In article <8018@ut-sally.UUCP> rbj@icst-cmr.arpa writes:
- >Depends on what you mean. I have had troubles reading the original
- >TPC V6 & V7 distribution tapes under 4.2 BSD. Perhaps the format has
- >changed since then. Anyone have a tar that will read these tapes?
-
- At this early hour, I can't think what "TPC" means. When someone
- tells me, I shall probably kick myself. On the other hand, the
- first UUG V6 & V7 distribution tapes were in tp or stp format.
- (Remember those?) When we first started switching to tar, we had
- some problems with a tar for V6 and PWB System 1.X. If I remember
- correctly, the first few read OK and wrote trash. They were based
- on (the new) V7 tar.
-
- Oh. The Phone Company. OK. Cutesy I am n o t at this hour of
- the morning. (One dissenting vote heard from.) My comment stands:
- the V6 and PWB tapes, at least; and prob'ly V7 as well, were not
- based on tar.
-
- [ Readers are not required to read articles early in the morning just
- because I often post them then. :-)
-
- The tar format in POSIX is derived from Version 7, as are most of the
- tar programs in use today. -mod ]
-
- >I would also like to see an option not to cross mount points, that is
- >stay on the same partition. This should be added to several major utilities.
-
- Easy enough:
- [%$] su
- Password:
- # mount
- / on /dev/disk-0
- /prime on /dev/disk-1
- /prime/secundus on /dev/disk-2
- # unmount /dev/disk-2
- # cd /prime
- # tar xv
-
- Other than that, this is awfully hard to do unless you are willing
- to break modularity by sticking info about the FS into programs
- which have no need to know about it whatsoever.
-
- Joe Yao jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised)
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