In <[log in to unmask]> Jim Wowchuk <[log in to unmask]> writes:
 
> Rick Ehrhart ([log in to unmask]) wrote:
> > tar is available on MPE 5.0 with the POSIX shell.  You can tar to your
> > hearts content between the 3000 and 9000.
>
> Is it correct that tar, like nfs, has no understanding of MPE-specific file
> attributes (in particular the file label and user labels) and thus is not a
> valid means for storing & restoring files between HP3000s?
>
> Can tar be extended to support these MPE file structures?
>
> "Why?", you ask.  For one thing, it would be nice to tar, gzip, uuencode and
> email (but do not fold, spindle or mutilate :).  Even HP's FTP does not
> currently support sending a file's user labels, does it?
>
> Does that leave DSCOPY and Quest's NBCOPY as the only commercial tools to
> support full 3000 to 3000 file transfer.  Oh and I guess Reflection's
> Labelled file transfer format, if you want to do a Canadian Two-Step. :)
 
NetMail/3000 and DeskLink automatically encode files using WRQ's label
format (or Business Session's BACKUP format) before MIME-encoding or
uuencoding files for transfer, and decode them automatically on receipt.
The nmencode/nmdecode programs that do this are available on our ftp
server (in the PROGS directory I believe).
 
I believe (craig?) that Fransen/King's ftp product also does something
similar...
 
                            -Chris Bartram