#TAR for Amiga ?
30-Oct-90 15:57:51
Sb: #2815-#TAR for Amiga ?
Fm: Daryl Anderson 70416,1046
To: Betty Clay/SYSOP 76702,337
Thanks – the author's address was one of those internet (?) thingies
(bob@CS#philly@onrye%!?) – btw, can we on CIS access those sorts of 'nodes'
now ? I see from my WHAP docs that EMAIL seems to handle INTERNET (end even
FAX ?). Is there some sort of UNIX/INTERNET port going out the other side
of CIS ?
Actually the BTN is pretty good once, ahem, corrected. I will try to get
around to some sort of re-upload. I DO have tar source from an old UNIX PD
(GNU-ish) tape, which I can NOW access with BTNtape and the current tar.
It is not amigaized but I may take a whack at it and upload.
The newer tape handler upload (MWTAPE) seems to be cleaner code 'cept
that it doesn't really doc its mountlist entry (reading the source answers
all tho) and its docs say that the Amiga MOUNT command will choke on its
format, so ARP mount is required. This is wierd since the BTNtape
MOUNTLIST entry has the same group of keywords (except for quoting the
STARTUP= parameter) and MOUNTS fine on my non-arp system.
-da