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From: nather@ut-sally.UUCP (Ed Nather)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: Public Domain/Shareware Backup Programs?
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Date: 4 Jun 88 16:02:12 GMT
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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
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