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- Submitted-by: stone@athena.cs.uga.edu (R.J. Stone)
-
- In order to save a little money, we here at COSMIC have decided to offer
- 3.5" UNIX tar format diskettes as a distribution medium for programs that
- will fit on a single high-density disk (rather than waste a whole .25" cart
- on a tiny program.)
-
- Right now we have been using a Sun4 workstation with a floppy drive on it
- to make our distribution disks. We will soon, however, be getting a HP
- workstation and a DECstation that will have 3.5" drives.
-
- What I would like to know is this: is there some kind of standard UNIX
- raw disk format, or does each company have their own disk format even for
- raw disk devices? (i.e. must we offer diskettes in SunOS tar, HP-UX tar,
- etc, etc?)
-
- All of the tar disks that I've encountered so far have been written on a
- Sun machine of some kind. Does anyone else out there even make significant
- use of 3.5" disks on non-Sun machines?
-
- Please e-mail responses.
-
- Thanks!
-
-
- R/s (Robert Stone)
- robert@cosmic.cosmic.uga.edu
- stone@athena.cs.uga.edu
- NASA COSMIC (COmputer Software Management and Information Center)
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- Volume-Number: Volume 28, Number 21
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