Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site rlgvax.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!bonnie!akgua!sdcsvax!dcdwest!ittvax!decvax!genrad!wjh12!talcott!harvard!seismo!rlgvax!guy From: guy@rlgvax.UUCP (Guy Harris) Newsgroups: net.unix-wizards Subject: Re: PC/IX Message-ID: <265@rlgvax.UUCP> Date: Fri, 30-Nov-84 02:07:22 EST Article-I.D.: rlgvax.265 Posted: Fri Nov 30 02:07:22 1984 Date-Received: Sun, 2-Dec-84 05:47:42 EST References: <11@ISM780.UUCP> Organization: CCI Office Systems Group, Reston, VA Lines: 18 > There is VERY little in System III that has been left out of PC/IX > (tar is the only "major" missing command, but is replaced by the ISC > dump and restore) ISC's dump and restore can't completely replace "tar". Period. *Nothing* really can, given that not all UNIX machines which could transfer files to your machine have "cpio" or some other file-bundler capable of bundling entire directory trees. What if I want to send a large directory full of files via UUCP (if PC/IX doesn't have UUCP, this doesn't apply, but the question "why doesn't it have UUCP" would come up) from a machine which doesn't have "cpio" (a V7/BSD system with only a V7/32V license)? The easiest way to do it is to build a "tar" file, ship the "tar" file over, and un-"tar" it at the receiving end. It's an *extremely* common operation around here, and at other sites I've seen. Just because the machine doesn't have a tape drive doesn't mean "tar" is useless. Guy Harris {seismo,ihnp4,allegra}!rlgvax!guy