Michael D. Hensley wrote:

> Archiving and compressing on the HP 3000: the Current State of the Art
>
> POSIX tar

i'd like to change the topic slightly...and talk about posix archiving.

is there a way to get tar (or cpio, i guess) to be better behaved --
that is more mpe-aware and less unix-y?  i have an application
that needs to use tar to create tapes to send to another company
with a unix system.  it would be *so nice* to be able to issue
a file equation and then say "tar...*tape...".  *not* being able
to do this is creating much havoc with the operators.  they're
not aware that a tape request is pending because all the lovely
tools we have to help the operators are mpe only.  i don't
believe this is an issue of running tar from the ci (vs. the shell).
if i'm wrong and could stand some enlightening -- please do so :-)
            - d

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