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From: cherry@husc4.harvard.edu (michael cherry)
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Subject: Re: ARC & similar things...
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Date: Sat, 10-Jan-87 11:37:45 EST
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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