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- From: pczip@mips.nott.ac.uk (Ivan Powis)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os9
- Subject: Re: GNU tar for OS9 ?
- Message-ID: <1992Sep8.081128.26464@cs.nott.ac.uk>
- Date: 8 Sep 92 08:11:28 GMT
- References: <1992Sep4.075928.18949@cs.nott.ac.uk> <q13NpGG@keihh.hanse.de>
- Sender: news@cs.nott.ac.uk
- Reply-To: pczip@mips.nott.ac.uk (Ivan Powis)
- Organization: Nottingham University
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- In article <q13NpGG@keihh.hanse.de>, kt@keihh.hanse.de (Kei Thomsen) writes:
- |> In article <1992Sep4.075928.18949@cs.nott.ac.uk> pczip@mips.nott.ac.uk (Ivan Powis) writes:
- |>
- |> >Has anyone ported GNU tar to the OS9 system? I know that there is a tar
- |> >available on hermit (as was) but I specifically wanted the compression
- |> >and remote device support that are available with the GNU version.
- |>
- |> Yes, Joerg Leu has ported the gnutar. But it can't do the compress-option,
- |> because it's to difficult with 3 fork() deep. The remote device will be
- |> usefull, if there is a port of rsh (remote shell). Has anyone ported a
- |> rsh and inetd (inet-daemon) ?
- |>
- Yes, I've ported rsh and am just finishing the server daemon, rshd, and rmt.
- When both the latter are done I'll submit them to cabrales (nee hermit) along
- with a remote printer client, lpr.
-
- You see I decided to do the internet communication stuff before turning to
- gnutar! Hopefully the source for the port you mention above will be made
- available by ftp (?)
-
- Ivan Powis
-