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- This directory contains a number of `anthology' tapes from old Unix
- conferences, donated to the archive by Henry Spencer. Here's his
- description of each tape.
-
- With the exception of del.tar, which is an image of the original, most
- of these tapes have been through format conversion to tar format. Because
- pre-tar tape utilities seldom bothered preserving file dates during
- extraction, the file dates are generally those of the format conversions.
-
- del.tar is the Delaware (June 1980) Usenix conference tape, containing
- the conference distributions from the Delaware Boulder (Jan 1980), and
- Toronto (June 1979) Usenix conferences. There's lots of different stuff
- on them; they're anthologies with no unifying theme except Unix.
-
- [ Note, this tarball has a corrupt section in it. The pax(1) in FreeBSD 2.2.5
- is able to skip the bad section, but GNU tar isn't. Henry believes that
- this was a physical defect on an old tape, and he can't recover the
- missing bits. An alternative to skip over the bad section is:
-
- zcat del.tar.gz | dd bs=1024 skip=9100 | dd bs=515 skip=1 | tar vtf -
- ]
-
- purdue.tar is an early distribution of Purdue's V6-based Unix
- improvements (notably some early non-TCP/IP Unix networking). One file
- includes a reference to a 1982 issue of Byte, but that appears to be just
- a typo, because the tape seems to have been cut in late spring 1979 for
- duplication at the June 1979 Usenix. sys/READ_ME has more info.
-
- tor79.tar is the conference distribution from the Toronto (June 1979)
- Usenix conference, which *ought* to be identical with the Toronto part of
- del.tar but I haven't checked that.
-
- uk1.tar is another anthology tape, dated Jan 1978, from the UK. The
- date means everything will be V5- or V6-based.
-
- unsw3.tar is yet another anthology, this one Australian. I can't find a
- README file, but some quick experimental grepping doesn't find any dates
- later than 1977, so this one may be really early.
-