Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Path: utzoo!mnetor!seismo!husc6!husc4!cherry From: cherry@husc4.harvard.edu (michael cherry) Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga Subject: Re: ARC & similar things... Message-ID: <978@husc6.UUCP> Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 11:37:45 EST Article-I.D.: husc6.978 Posted: Sat Jan 10 11:37:45 1987 Date-Received: Sat, 10-Jan-87 22:48:09 EST References: <2280@well.UUCP> <340@oliveb.UUCP> <8232@topaz.RUTGERS.EDU> <5017@amdahl.UUCP> <2137@jade.BERKELEY.EDU> Sender: news@husc6.UUCP Reply-To: cherry%husc4@harvard.harvard.edu (J. Michael Cherry) Organization: Harvard Science Center Lines: 15 Summary: Expires: Sender: Followup-To: Distribution: Keywords: If there was a tar program for the Amiga, not just the TarSplit program, you could: tar cf - !* | compress -b14 | btoa > savefile I find this method vary effective in allowing me to transfer multiple or single files between Unix<->Unix or Unix->VMS or Unix->Amiga. It would be useful to me to be able to add Amiga->VMS and Amiga<->Unix. The Amiga version of compress defaults to "-b14", btoa adds a checksum (but no correction) plus a header so it (like uuencode) can break the binary out of a mail file. I think I first saw this procedure described in net.sources as utilities called tarsend and untarsend that came with btoa.c and atob.c . Mike Cherry cherry%frodo.decnet@mghccc.harvard.edu