Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!gatech!mandrill!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!cs.utexas.edu!ut-sally!nather From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather) Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc Subject: Re: Public Domain/Shareware Backup Programs? Message-ID: <11946@ut-sally.UUCP> Date: 4 Jun 88 16:02:12 GMT References: <4237@zodiac.UUCP> <112@otishq.UUCP> Distribution: na Organization: U. Texas CS Dept., Austin, Texas Lines: 14 The GNU version of TAR has been ported to MS-DOS and seems to work fine. It is, of course, not restricted to tape archives only (it never was) and preserves the directory structure it archives. A caveat in the writeup indicates it doesn't archive gracefully across floppy disk boundaries, however. That sounds like a modest challenge to an MS-DOS C programmer ... p.s. If you add that improvement, please send me a copy. -- Ed Nather Astronomy Dept, U of Texas @ Austin {allegra,ihnp4}!{noao,ut-sally}!utastro!nather nather@astro.AS.UTEXAS.EDU