Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!clyde!bellcore!rutgers!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers
From: sneakers@heimat.UUCP (Dan "Sneakers" Schein)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga
Subject: Re: Kickstart-ROM and tar
Message-ID: <4732.AA4732@heimat>
Date: 8 Dec 88 01:33:19 GMT
Followup-To: comp.sys.amiga
Organization: Sneakers Computing
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In Message <5812@louie.udel.EDU>, AB100%DK0RRZK0.BITNET@cunyvm.cuny.edu writes:

>Hi, folks.
>I have been feeding my Amiga 1000 with its beloved Kickstart Disk for ages
>now.
>Does any one know how to add Kickstart-ROMS to the expansion port of the
>A1000 ? Is it as easy as just putting the ROMS on a proper board with address
>and data bus buffers and giving them a chip-select signal at $FC0000 ?
>Or do I have to patch the contents of Kickstart somewhere ?

  In the "2ND ANNUAL AMIGA DEVELOPERS CONFERENCE NOTES" (available from CATS)
  there is a section on how to modify a A1000 to use KickStart ROMs. And also
  the info on how to make those ROMs.

>       Has anyone ported the pd-tar program to the amiga? It is used on
>       the Atari ST and on several UN*X-Machines. It archives whole
>       directory trees in one file. Then this file can be compressed with
>       compress. Then the compression rate is much higher than using arc or
>       zoo.

  I didnt write it, but I do have a TAR commmand for AmigaDOS. It works very
  well and has served me both to and from Ultrix tar files. E-Mail me if you
  want a uuencoded copy.


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Dan "Sneakers" Schein          {pyramid|rutgers|uunet}!cbmvax!heimat!sneakers
Sneakers Computing
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