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- From: jsdy@hadron.uucp (Joseph S. D. Yao)
-
- John,
-
- Thanks for an excellent summary. However, I don't think I ever
- said that System III or System V didn't have tar. I don't have
- an archive to check, but that may have been when I posited that
- V7 distribution tapes probably did not come in tar format, since
- prior to that tar had not been distributed. System V may have
- had tar from the beginning. I do not remember about System III.
-
- Berkeley 4BSD tapes did come in tar format, I remember; but they
- assumed that you had already received your V7/32V tapes, and were
- in a different format from the V7/32V tapes.
- [ You're evidently referring to some pretty old BSD tapes. -mod ]
-
- Once tar had come out, versions were written which could read
- tar distribution tapes under V6 and PWB 1.0. (PWB was released
- outside of AT&T, BTW.)
-
- Joe Yao jsdy@hadron.COM (not yet domainised)
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